RE: [sv-bc] Email Ballot Due Sep 28

Hi, Shalom -

I had to re-read the sentence slowly four times to parse the sentence 
to come up with my counter proposal, and when I was done I still was 
not sure that my counter proposal was correct or equivalent. I 
believe the sentence needs to be stated more clearly; hence, the 
counter proposal. Logie has also raised an issue with the same 
proposal. I believe we can discuss this item and fix it quickly in 
committee. You did most of the work, I just re-wrote it to make it 
more clear to me. If others find it clear as is, then I will be 
out-voted and will not shed any tears.

Regards - Cliff

At 02:47 AM 9/28/2006, Bresticker, Shalom wrote:
>Is there another reasonable way to parse the sentence?
>
>Shalom
>
>
> > >SVDB 1554 ___Yes   _X__No
> > >http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001554
> >
> > I would like the wording clarified a little more. I believe the
> > intent is to propose:
> >
> > PROPOSED:
> > It shall be legal to call any of these query functions within a
> > constant expression if the call would be legal in an expression, the
> > first argument is a fixed-size type or is an expression of some
> > fixed-size type, and the optional dimension expression, if there is
> > one, is a constant expression.
> >
> > AMENDED PROPOSAL:
> > It shall be legal to call any of these query functions within a
> > constant expression if all three of the following conditions are
> > true: (1) the call would be legal in an expression, (2) the first
> > argument is a fixed-size type or is an expression of some fixed-size
> > type, and (3) the optional dimension expression, if there is one, is
> > a constant expression.
> >
> > If the amended wording is wrong, then I clearly did not understand
> > the proposed wording and it needs to be updated. The Sentence is
> > complex enough to justify the 1-3 listing with clarification.

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