Re: [sv-bc] Mantis 1602: task/function default inout arguments

Of course you're right there.
But those conventions have already been modified for subprograms 12.4.4 of 1800-2005 says:

"If the arguments have default values, they are treated like parameters to module instances.
 If the arguments do not have a default, then they must be given, or the compiler shall issue an error."

The missing call site arguments (those not supplied by name binding) are
presumably being supplied positionally, and so they need placeholders.
If these placeholders are vacant, I claim the user is specifying a disconnect.

Bresticker, Shalom wrote:
> Greg, 
> 
>> Unconnected ports to an instance always have a corresponding 
>> vacant position in the port list - a position delimited by 
>> commas or parentheses.
> 
> Not if you connect ports by name.
> 
> Example:
> 
> module top;
> 
> m m (.a(a));
> 
> endmodule
> 
> module m(a,b);
> input a;
> output b;
> endmodule
> 
> In fact, this is a frequent usage.
> E.g., if you have a FF cell with Q and Q_INV outputs and you only
> connect one of them.
> 
> Shalom


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