Re: WG Ballot - Accept closure of http://www.eda-stds.org/mantis/view.php?id=3386

I vote in support  - let’s close this issue.
-- yaron

On Jun 26, 2014, at 12:16 AM, darren.galpin@infineon.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is an e-mail ballot on http://www.eda-stds.org/mantis/view.php?id=3386. The summary is as follows:-
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> Summary:                    Consider adding wildcard equality operators
> Description:
> Consider adding wildcard equiality operators ==?
> and !=? like in SystemVerilog, where x and z values act as wildcard.
> 
> 
> Comment from IEEE-SA ballot, to consider for future version.
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> (0016233) Yuri Tsoglin (developer) - 2014-06-25 08:42
> http://www.eda-stds.org/mantis/view.php?id=3386#c16233
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> I propose to close this issue.
> We already have operators === and !== (section 4.10.3 in the 2011 version of LRM), which provide this ability between HDL objects and e expressions.
> 
> Applying the same to e expressions in general would be irrelevant. Unlike SystemVerilog (which is based on Verilog in the first place), e is not based on HDL language, and as such it doesn't have at all the notion of x and z values for its native expressions.
> 
> In addition, we already have MVL capabilities for simple ports (sections
> 9.9 and 9.10 in the 2011 version), which also handle x and z values in a way.
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> So, the ballot question is as follows:-
> 
> Do you accept closing this issue as rejected on the basis that it applies to HDL languages only?
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> The ballot will be open for a week. Feel free to add any points of discussion to the issue via the reflector.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Darren
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