RE: [sv-bc] E-mail Ballot: Respond by 8AM PST, Mon, Dec 10, 2007

From: Steven Sharp <sharp_at_.....>
Date: Tue Dec 11 2007 - 12:59:29 PST
>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


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