RE: [sv-ec]E-mail Vote (part 1) Closes 12am PST April 24th

I don't have voting privileges, but I agree with Neil's objection on
1707.

> 1707  ___ Yes   _X_ No
> 
>    a. The new description doesn't seem to match the examples in one
> respect
> 
>       "This generic stream is then sliced into blocks with the
> specified number
>       of bits starting with the left-most bit."
> 
>       The examples seem to be showing that the slicing operation is
> dependent
>       upon which streaming operator is used.
> 
>          { << 4 { 6'b11_0101 }} // generates stream 'b0101_11
>          { >> 4 { 6'b11_0101 }} // generates stream 'b1101_01 (same)

Also, Doug Warmke wrote:

> 1707  ___ Yes   _X_ No
> I don't think the final sentence in the proposal is clear enough:
> "Streaming from left-to-right keeps bits of the generic stream in 
> the same order; streaming from right to left reverses the order of 
> each block."
> 
> Does this mean "... the order of the bits in each block"?
> Or does it mean "... the order of the sequence of blocks"?
> Or both?  Should be easy to resolve this with a friendly amendment.

I think this sentence means "the order of the bits in each block". I
don't know whether that is the intention, but that is what it means, and
I do not agree with this either.

Shalom

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