>From: "Bresticker, Shalom" <shalom.bresticker@intel.com> >> I am also not sure that 12.4.2 should be saying "evaluate and compare" >> instead of just "evaluate". This may have come in from the >> case section also. Yes, there is an implicit compare to >> zero, but that is just the definition of whether the >> condition is true or not, so I don't think it needs specific >> mention. It seems more likely to confuse than help. >> However, I acknowledge that it is not wrong. > >I wrote it this way because 'evaluate' means to compute the value of a >condition without necessary looking at the result. 'compare' was >intended to mean 'look at the result and decide whether it means true or >false'. I think that 'test' might convey that meaning more clearly than 'compare', even though the test is essentially a comparison to zero. But I didn't have a big issue with it. As I said, I think the proposal was a major improvement. 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 Wed Dec 12 18:31:11 2007
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