RE: [sv-ec] Ballot issue #182, Mantis 2514: Out of block constraints

It all depends on your POV - is this a bug turned into a feature, or a
feature that should have exposed a bug?

With out-of-block extern methods, the class body represents a list of
prototypes that need to be completed externally. If you fail to complete
one of those prototypes, you have violated that agreement.

When you don't complete an out-of-block constraint, did you forget it,
or was your intent to leave it empty?

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sv-ec@server.eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@server.eda.org] On
Behalf Of Brad Pierce
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 3:28 PM
To: sv-ec@eda.org
Subject: RE: [sv-ec] Ballot issue #182, Mantis 2514: Out of block
constraints

> but does anyone have strong feelings about whether the warning should
be mandatory or optional

More generally, should any warnings be mandatory?

-- Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sv-ec@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@eda.org] On Behalf Of
jonathan.bromley@doulos.com
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 3:02 PM
To: sv-ec@eda.org
Subject: [sv-ec] Ballot issue #182, Mantis 2514: Out of block
constraints

Every implementation I could try gives a warning
for a constraint prototype with no external body.
One implementation helpfully points out that
it would be legal in an abstract class.

I'll write up this de facto behaviour as a proposal,
but does anyone have strong feelings about
whether the warning should be mandatory or
optional?
--
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