RE: [sv-ec] Email vote - closes June 22nd

The most correct term might be 'data object'.

Shalom

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> From: owner-sv-ec@server.eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@server.eda.org]
> On Behalf Of Geoffrey.Coram
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 3:35 PM
> To: Jonathan Bromley
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> Subject: Re: [sv-ec] Email vote - closes June 22nd
> 
> I'm open to the friendly amendment, but I'm not sure
> it's correct to say "variable" because I believe one
> could also use string literals as default values for
> integer type parameters, along the lines of
> 
>   parameter [31:0] input = "AAAA";
> 
> The current text has this sentence:
> 
>   A string literal can be assigned to a string type
>   or an integral type.
> 
> and I tried to stick with the "convention."
> 
> -Geoffrey
> 
> 
> 
> Jonathan Bromley wrote:
> >
> > > 1789  _X_ Yes   ___ No
> > If possible, I'd like to squeeze in a friendly amendment to replace
> > the phrase "assigned to an integral type" (or similar) with
> something
> > like "assigned to a variable of integral type".  Such wording
> appears
> > in at least six places.  The proposal is reasonably clear without
> > this amendment, but the confusion of "type" and "variable" is
> > unfortunate.
> >
> > > 1857  ___ Yes   ___ No  _X_ Abstain
> > I am in favour of the proposal, but I lack the expertise in
> > compiler theory to be 100% sure that it doesn't have any
> > unpleasant side effects.
> >
> > > 1371  ___ Yes   _X_ No
> > My vote becomes Yes if the spurious incomplete sentence
> >   When all initial constructs in a program have completed
> > is removed from the middle of the last paragraph of the
> > proposal.  I hope this can be regarded as a friendly
> > amendment.
> >
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> > Jonathan Bromley, Consultant
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