>Are you suggesting we dispense with slicing altogether? >Shifting, masking, and casting are tedious and error prone. Based on the discussion, there are complex issues that would need to be resolved before allowing part selects on arbitrary expressions. Given that there is already a way of getting the proposed functionality, I don't think the effort to work this out is a high priority at this time. In procedural code, an intermediate variable can be used to hold the expression value and allow a part select. In any situation where an intermediate variable is not a possibility, the functionality can still be obtained with a shift and cast. Steven Sharp sharp@cadence.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Tue Mar 6 16:02:34 2007
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