Subject: Re: Localparam documentation bug??
From: Michael McNamara (mac@verisity.com)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 19:15:33 PST
Steven Sharp writes:
>
> >The BNF appears to be missing the option to permit localparam's in the
> >ANSI-style parameter list, and the localparam description is pretty short
> >and does not address the issue.
> >
> >Please, somebody tell me that we covered this somewhere in the Standard or
> >that we intended for this capability to be included in the Standard?
>
> I seem to recall this shortcoming being mentioned and not considered
> important enough to be a major issue. I don't recall this solution being
> suggested.
>
> Steven Sharp
> sharp@cadence.com
>
My recollection concurs with Steven -- we noted it, recognized it was
a problem, but not nearly as signifigant as others we noticed after
ballot approval (like that the BNF allowed one to declare wires in
functions; those signifigant ones we did get fixed).
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