Re: .* and .name proposals - Cliff votes yes


Subject: Re: .* and .name proposals - Cliff votes yes
From: Kevin Cameron x3251 (dkc@galaxy.nsc.com)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 17:36:15 PST


>
> I just got back into town today. My email has been down.
>
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>
> 2 - Should .* be required to be listed first in the port list? The proposal
> requires .* to be listed first. One person on this reflector suggested that
> it be listed last. I still like the idea that it be listed first to
> indicate that this instance is going to use this format and that any mixing
> with the .name syntax will be an immediate syntax error. I am open to
> friendly amendments that change this requirement in the next couple of weeks.

Why make its position a requirement at all - anywhere in the list would be
equally good (/bad)?

Last - if I have to choose.

>....
>
> Just wait until Version 3.1 when I propose the following syntax:
>
> connect [range] net1 = net2 = net3 = net4; // must all be scalar or must
> all have the same size

Is that the same as the "alias" statement I asked for a couple of e-mails back?

("connect" is already used in Verilog-AMS.)

Kev.



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