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---+!! P1076 February 12, 2015 Meeting Minutes
---++!! Attendees:

* Main.PeterFlake * Main.RyanHinton * Main.JimLewis * Main.RobGaddi
---++!! Agenda:

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---++ Meeting Discussion
   * Uploaded proposal summary on private documents area of TWIKI.
   * Browsing Higher ranked proposals
   * FileIO - FILE_COPY_HANDLE - implies doing an assignment to the file identifier. Currently there is no such thing. 
      * How to do this in a file declaration to attach an identifier to std.textio.OUTPUT
   * BigNum 
      * Done with a package would be have to be a protected type to allow dynamic sizing.
      * This makes doing operators challenging
   * Is Fixed Point Algorithmic package needed by 1076.1? 
      * Should it be part of the standard or should it be released as open source?
      * With open source, it could be updated frequently without having to put it through the standards process.
   * Implicitly defined to_string for composites 
      * language defined attribute for separator, prefix, postfix that applies to either a type or an object (signal, varaible, constant)
      * all parties agreed that it is more important to provide a base implementation than what the exact format is.
   * For conditional compilation all parties at the meeting agreed that a simple implementation that used pre-defined names would be sufficient.

---++ Review and Approve Meeting Minutes:
   * Motion: Ryan 2nd: Peter, Rob
---++ Next Meeting: Thursday [[2015_MeetingMarch26][March 26, 2015]] 11 am Pacific
---+++ Previous Meeting: Thursday [[2015_MeetingJanuary22][January 22, 2015]]

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