RE: [sv-ac] call to vote on Mantis 1466

I don't like this proposal as well, at least at this time. For
1800-2008, I'd really like to see a higher degree of pain relief to
justify any enhancement.

I don't think the ROI for this feature is high enough to justify the
added complexity it introduces to the language. It also makes it more
difficult to generate useful error messages when there are syntax errors
because of the additional productions.

Dave


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-ac@server.eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ac@server.eda.org]
On
> Behalf Of Bassam Tabbara
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 9:12 PM
> To: john.havlicek@freescale.com; sv-ac@server.eda-stds.org
> Subject: RE: [sv-ac] call to vote on Mantis 1466
> 
> I vote no.
> 
> I have reservations about the ROI of the syntax sugaring here. "?" has
a
> different meaning in Verilog. As for the [*], if a user say made a
> mistake and dropped a digit from [*2] say, they get a nasty [*0:$]
> eating up their time, a couple of extra characters for clarity seem
well
> worth it.
> 
> Thx.
> -Bassam.
> 
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