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| Number | 571
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| Category | enhancement
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| Synopsis | review explicit restrictions in LRM
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| State | open
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| Class | enhancement
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| Arrival-Date | Apr 14 2004
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| Originator | Shalom Bresticker <Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com>
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| Release | 2001b
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| Description |
Many restrictions appear in the LRM. Some are explicit, for example, "You cannot do such and such". Others are implicit, "The legal possiblities for this expression are such and such," which implicitly excludes others. Reviewing the implicit restrictions is difficult. But I propose that we review the explicit restrictions to see whether they should be removed or relaxed. Many explicit restrictions can be identified by 'negative' language words such as 'not', 'never', etc. For example, 12.3.7 says that "The real data type shall not be directly connected to a port". That restriction should be reconsidered. Many of these restrictions have their roots in history, due to limitations of early implementations, but not due necessarily to inherent problems in the idea. They should not blindly be continued in the future. |
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