P1076 July 14, 2011 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• DavidKoontz * JarekKaczynski * JimLewis * ChuckSwart * MartinThompson* ChrisHiggs

Agenda:

Approve June 30 Minutes

• Motion * 2nd: DavidKoontz * JarekKaczynski
• Email vote on Operating Procedures for P1076 Working Group has passed
• Reminder: Please list your self in the working group roster
• Review collected requirements list
  • Identify items to vote on.
• Continue discussion of language change requirements.

Hierarchical Namespaces

• AI: Chris (and others) Add more use cases
  • Help justify the proposal from a business sense (why will a user buy this)
  • Help justify the proposal from a user sense (why will a user demand to have this)
• Make sure that we can keep major library independence by using work as a top level library reference
  • library work.packet.ethernet ;
  • use work.packet.ethernet ;
  • Jim Added examples to proposal - please revise as necessary

Record Introspection

• Transformation between a composite and a vector (single dimensional array)
• Extend so that composite = record, multidimensional array, or array of arrays
• Important that it can support vector elements of any type (std_ulogic or integer)
• Iterating over record elements
• AI: Chris: Find a title that expresses this
• AI: Chris: Add detail to use cases

Type Introspection on Vector Literals

• Vectors can be used to create an "argv" like set of values to an interface (such as a subprogram).
• To effectively use this capability within an overloaded subprogram environment, we need introspection of vector literals
• AI: Jim Write initial proposal

Action Items:

• All: Take ownership of items in the Raw Requirements area of Collect Requirements and write proposals
  • Collected Requirements
• Chris Higgs: Extend Record Introspection to include transformations between composites (record, multidimensional array, or array of arrays) and vectors
• Chris Higgs: Add use models to both proposals
• Chuck and any other: Comment on proposal formats
• John Shields: Coordinate development of requirements template
• Jim: Forward Procedures and Policies to DASC
• Jim: Write proposal for Type Introspection on Vector Literals

Next Meeting Date (proposed):

Thursday July 28, 8 am Pacific