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

Thanks.
By the way, the proposal passed the email ballot.

Shalom 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Sharp [mailto:sharp@cadence.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:59 PM
> To: sharp@cadence.com; sv-bc@eda.org; Maidment, Matthew R; 
> Bresticker, Shalom
> Subject: RE: [sv-bc] E-mail Ballot: Respond by 8AM PST, Mon, 
> Dec 10, 2007
> 
> 
> >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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