[sv-ec] Mantis 2137 and structured procedures

Hi folks,

In 9.2 Structured Procedures (Draft 4), the first paragraph says,

   "All procedures in SystemVerilog are specified within one of the following
    constructs:"

and then lists always (in its various flavors), intial, final, task and 
function. What do we mean by "procedure" and "procedural context"? It does not 
appear to be "process" (which includes non-procedural stuff like continuous 
assignments) nor "sequential context" (which does not include the various 
fork-joins), nor "callable thing" (which, obviously, doesn't include always, 
initial, or final). Is a procedure just a place where a statement can be? If so, 
I'm concerned about the use of "All" here - using it here prevents any other 
clause from defining a procedural context (a place for a statement) that is not 
a structured procedure (I guess this is a procedure with some degree of 
structure - perhaps it is created using a keyword or something).

In any event, I think it would be better to change that first sentence to read 
"Structured procedures" rather than "All procedures". I can then leave it to the 
AC to denote in clause 16 whatever they like as a procedural context without 
having to worry about conflicting with 9.2.

I would also suggest to AC that they denote sequence_match_item as a procedural 
context, since everything they want to put there (assignment, inc/dec, 
subroutine call) is a statement.

--Mike


-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.