Re: Question on variable initialization in port list.

From: Shalom Bresticker (Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2001 - 01:23:49 PDT

Stefen,

Thanks for your pointer to Mac's email (0404.html).

I overlooked Mac's explicit mention of variable initializations in the port list.

Actually, Mac expressed the preference that variable initializations NOT be in the port list.

We all agree that the final syntax does allow such references,
but I am not sure that was the intention of the committee, or whether perhaps it was overlooked
amongst all the syntax revisions.

I guess the question is moot now.

Shalom

<p>Stefen Boyd wrote:

> At 11:44 AM 8/30/2001 +0300, Shalom Bresticker wrote:
> >From a straight syntax point of view, you are correct.
> >
> >However, I`m not sure this was ever discussed in the committee.
> >
> >The addition of variable initialization within its declaration was separate from the
> >addition of ANSI style declarations within the port list.
> >
> >I am not sure that anyone looked at the combination of the two together.
>
> Actually, I remember that it came up, but
> I don't know that we ever really discussed
> it more than Mac's mention of combining the
> two proposals in an email. But since we
> never prevented the B14 proposal from affecting
> the B09 proposal, it's there...
>
> The original proposal passed by the VSG had
> the assignments for variables, but not net
> types. See:
> http://boyd.com/1364_btf/btf_1999/0405.html
>
> Mac mentioned it in response to Adam's email:
> http://boyd.com/1364_btf/btf_1999/0404.html
>
> Note that the proposal was accepted with the only
> modification being to include UDPs in the
> proposal (see minutes of Jan 1999 VSG meeting).
>
> Stefen
>
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