8.1 "Class instances, or objects, can be passed around via object handles, which provide a safe-pointer capability in the language." The "in the language" could be eliminated. 8.1 "Any variable data type can be declared as a class member." What is a variable data type? Is this trying to say what 8.5 later says as "There are no restrictions on the data type of a class property."? 8.26 "On the surface, it might appear that class and struct provide equivalent functionality, and only one of them is needed. However, that is not true; class differs from struct in three fundamental ways" I think this subclause adds nothing but confusion, and could be eliminated. Consider the three "fundamental" differences -- 1) "Creating an object is done by calling new." Maybe a struct is syntactic sugar for a class with all its members public and there's an implicit new in the declaration of a struct object. 2) "unlike C, SystemVerilog handles are guaranteed to be safe" This isn't a C LRM. Point 2 doesn't even mention structs. 3) "Class inheritance, abstract classes, and dynamic casting are powerful mechanisms that go way beyond the mere encapsulation mechanism provided by structs." Again, maybe structs are just a special case of classes. See also http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-bc/hm/4713.html . -- Brad -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Sat Apr 7 22:57:02 2007
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