Re: [sv-bc] Proposal for compatibility problems with mixedVerilog/SystemVerilog code

From: Geoffrey.Coram <Geoffrey.Coram@analog.com>
Date: Tue Nov 30 2004 - 08:35:49 PST

Shalom.Bresticker@freescale.com wrote:
>
> > 2. Why the quotations marks on the name? We should allow for other names there so that
> > we do not have to list all the legal versions now, hoping that we don't miss one.
>
> Why do quotation marks prevent allowing for other names?

Shalom, I agree that the quotation marks don't prevent using
other names; however, I think the proposal probably does need
to say what happens if the requested string is unknown.

What if you get

`keywords "1800-2010"

in a compiler that was released in 2005?

-Geoffrey
Received on Tue Nov 30 08:35:57 2004

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