Subject: Re: Thoughts on the .* proposal
From: Dave Kelf (davek@co-design.com)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 09:40:25 PST
Hi Stu,
I think (as I am sure do most people) that there is tons of merit to what
Cliff is suggesting. I also agree that he did a very good job, as usual, of
working through the various language issues.
My only concern is that we haven't tried it out yet and it seems that this
is one of these things that could have a bunch of implementation gotchas.
As such I would not suggest dropping it but just doing some more work on it
- so the suggestion of deferral. Having said that, the vote is taken so
there we go.
Cheers
Dave.
At 06:53 PM 3/23/2002 -0800, Stuart Sutherland wrote:
>All,
>
>The e-mail votes to defer the .* port connection proposal to a later
>version of SystemVerilog leave me a little concerned that some of us have
>not taken time to carefully review Cliff's .* proposal. In Cliff's e-mail
>of 17 Mar 2002 (subject: ".* and .name Implicit Port Declaration Proposal
>- 20020317") he went to a great deal of effort to explain the syntax and
>benefits of the .* construct. The proposal is very thorough, and leaves
>nothing to "defer". A couple of minor questions were raised regarding the
>order of mixed .* and named connections, but those questions can be
>quickly answered, and do not justify deferring a useful construct for
>several months.
>
>A number of readers of this message have not voted at all. I would like
>to encourage those who have not yet voted, and those who perhaps voted to
>defer the construct because they did not have time to read Cliff's three
>attachments to the aforementioned e-mail, to find the time to review the
>proposal before the 9:00 AM conference call on the 25th. They document
>the syntax and advantages very clearly.
>
>Stu
>
>
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