Subject: [sv-bc] "Prepone" definition
From: Clifford E. Cummings (cliffc@sunburst-design.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 09:44:00 PDT
Hi, All -
Mac points out that "prepone" is not a word (at least on a word found by
www.dictionary.com). I guess Mac has never preponed a date with his
wife? ;-) ;-) ;-)
This was also a discussion in the SSWG (Scheduling Semantics Working
Group). Phil Moorby actually found a reference to prepone.
I have to admit, I like Matt's idea (slightly modified) of
pre-iterative/port-iterative since we now have iterative regions. The
following was the brief discussion.
Regards - Cliff
>From: "Phil Moorby" <Philip.Moorby@synopsys.com>
>To: "Maidment, Matthew R" <matthew.r.maidment@intel.com>,
>Subject: RE: SSWG Vote
>Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:29:25 -0500
>
>Matt,
>
>You should do a google search on the word prepone.
>
>I think the link
><http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fugitives/moveitup.htm>http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fugitives/moveitup.htm
>was the most informative.
>
>Prepone is found in The New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998. It is
>listed as being
>Indian (from India) and is defined as: to bring forward to an earlier date
>or time.
>Example given: The publication date has been preponed from July to June.
>
>Actually, we too have looked at many pairs, and I find preponed/postponed
>quite logical
>and easy to remember.
>
>Maybe one day preponed will become a Verilog keyword! and that will
>probably annoy
>lots of people :-)
>
>Phil
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Maidment, Matthew R [mailto:matthew.r.maidment@intel.com]
>Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:39 PM
>To: 'David W. Smith'; 'Michael Rohleder'; 'Faisal Haque'
>Cc: 'Phil Moorby'; 'Arturo Salz'; 'Bassam Tabbara'; 'Cliff Cummings';
>'Dennis B. Brophy'; 'Jay Lawrence'; 'Joao Geada'; 'Matt Maidment'; 'Neil
>Korpusik'; 'Peter Flake'
>Subject: RE: SSWG Vote
>
>This mail is not meant to be disruptive. I'm doing this
>in hopes of jarring some last minute inspiration. The terms
>preponed and postponed really annoy me ;->
>
>1. Preponed is not a word (that hasn't prevented technology
>from spawning plenty of new terms :-)
>
>2. The notion of being poned with respect to the iterative
>region and not time might not be obvious to all who tread later.
>
>I started brainstorming some other pairs of pre/post hoping
>to find something more suitable. Here's my list:
>
>entry / exit
>pre-iteration / post-iteration
>starting / finishing
>opening / concluding
>introductory / concluding
>pre-evaluation / post-evaluation
>leading / trailing
>initial / final
>first / last
>premiere / ultimate
>lead / lag
>opening / closing
>inaugural / final
>front / rear
>start / end
>IMO, almost any of these is better, but I ranked them
>in order of my preference. The pairs could be mixed
>and matched.
>
>Again, I don't intend for this to be a var/ref/& debate
>I was just hoping to spark some other idea.
>
>BTW, thanks to all for more deliberately defining the
>time slot and the callback locations.
>
>Matt
>
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