Re: What happened to the spelling of nonblocking in the IEEE Std1364-2001??

From: Shalom Bresticker (shalom@msil.sps.mot.com)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 21:33:28 PDT

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We have a number of typos and other editorial mistakes in Draft 6.
We should make sure these are corrected in the final version. 

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On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Maq Mannan wrote:

> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:38:09 -0700 
> From: Maq Mannan <mannan@DSMTech.COM>
> To: Clifford E. Cummings <cliffc@sunburst-design.com>
> Cc: Yatin Trivedi <trivedi@intrinsix.com>, btf@boyd.com,
     "Mannan, Maq" <mannan@DSMTech.COM>
> Subject: Re: What happened to the spelling of nonblocking in the IEEE
    Std1364-2001??
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> Cliff,
> 
> Yatin is on vacation. The IEEE will be sending me the final PDF version
> sometime this week. After I receive it, I will be sending it to you,
> Steve and Stu to give a final thumbs up. If the spelling is incorrect
> there we still have a chance of correcting it. Thanks for bringing it
> up.
> 
> 
> Rgds,
> 
> 
> Maq
> 
> "Clifford E. Cummings" wrote:
> > 
> > Maq, Yatin -
> > 
> > I just noticed that Nonblocking, spelled correctly in section 5.6.4 and
> > everywhere else in both the 1364-1995 Standard and Draft 5 of the 2001
> > Standard, is spelled as two different words (Non blocking) in Draft 6 of
> > the 1364-2001 Standard. We went to great lengths to remove all of the
> > inconsistencies in the 1364-2001 text and BNF so that people would quit
> > misspelling this as non-blocking (the 1364-1995 BNF had this misspelling in
> > a couple of places).
> > 
> > Please tell me that it is spelled nonblocking in the standard that is being
> > released by the IEEE (I don't want to fight yet a third spelling of
> > nonblocking for the next X years).
> > 
> > How did Draft 6 get changed? I did not even think to look at the spelling
> > of nonblocking in Draft 6 since we did not ask for this change. This is
> > very frustrating.
> > 
> > Regards - Cliff
> > 
> > At 02:14 PM 9/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Andy,
> > >
> > >Can you update me on the status of this? We have been waiting a long
> > >time for this.
> > >
> > >
> > >Rgds,
> > >
> > >
> > >Maq
> > >
> > >Andrew Ickowicz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Maq,
> > > >
> > > > Working feverishly to get this completed, but am still not quite
> > > > done. My hope right now is next week. Thanks for keeping in touch and
> > > > sincere apologies for the delay(s).
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Andy
> > > >
> > > > >Andy,
> > > > >
> > > > >Did you complete work on the 1364 document? I am still waiting
> > > > >for your PDF file.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >Rgds,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >Maq
> > 
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