RE: [sv-ec] foreach iterates over unpacked arrays

Thanks. I am enjoying my week of fame.

What I was trying to say about queues was that the text was cut and
pasted from Vera, which had no packed arrays or queues at the time. So
any type of array is legal.


I am rewriting the proposal, trying to come up with a description for
fact that you don't need commas (,) at the end of the list to indicate
omitted variables, but I don't see that wording anywhere else. Is the
BNF sufficient? I would have thought it would have been there for lists
of port connections, or lists of arguments for tasks, functions.

Also, I'm assuming if the user changes the size of the array during a
foreach, the results are undefined and may cause an illegal index value
to be generated.

Dave


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bresticker, Shalom [mailto:shalom.bresticker@intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:13 AM
> To: Rich, Dave; sv-ec@eda.org
> Subject: RE: [sv-ec] foreach iterates over unpacked arrays
> 
> Dave,
> 
> Congratulations on your IEEE award.
> 
> Your statement was unclear: are queues allowed or not?
> 
> When are the index value sets evaluated? That is, if one or more of
the
> dimensions is dynamic, what happens if the array size changes in the
> middle of the foreach loop execution?
> 
> In the statement,
> 
> "Empty loop variables can be used to indicate no iteration over that
> dimension of the array, and contiguous empty loop variables towards
the
> end can be omitted,"
> 
> the first part can be rephrased as
> "Loop variables may be omitted to indicate ..".
> 
> Shalom
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: owner-sv-ec@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@eda.org] On Behalf Of
> Rich, Dave
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:19 AM
> To: Arturo Salz; Steven Sharp; sv-ec@eda.org
> Subject: RE: [sv-ec] foreach iterates over unpacked arrays
> 
> OK, then how about just removing the parenthetical clause (fixed-size,
> dynamic, or associative)
> which is in fact the different forms of an unpacked array, minus
queues.
> There is no reason this clause should be there.
> 
> Regarding index variables, an empty variable usually refers to the
> contents of that variable. You can have unspecified index variables,
or
> empty index variable arguments. Any other ideas?
> 
> Dave