[P1800] Reminder - Mantis items review required - from last meeting

Hi P1800 Working Group members,

There are two Mantis items that have been approved by both the
Technical Committees and the Champions which have not yet been
voted on by the Working Group.

At both of the last two Working Group conference calls, there was
a request for more time so that DR's could review the proposals
offline.

Please make sure that you come prepared to discuss these Mantis
items in the January 31 meeting.

Neil





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   From Working Group meeting of November 15, 2007, December 13, 2007
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Members of the Working Group asked for more time to review the following
two mantis items.

42. 1556 SV-EC  2007-10-02  in-line static variable initialization - require
                 keyword static?
          - Approved by SV-EC June/11/2007 unanimously
          - Champions sent it back to the svec - backward compatibility concern
                                               - issue with the examples
          - Approved by SV-EC Sept/17/2007 with 3 no votes
              Arturo - this is inconsistent with the rest of the language
                     - doesn't see a need for adding this requirement.
         Mehdi, Mark - not a serious enough issue to create a backward
                       compatibility problem
          - This requirement was in SystemVerilog 3.0, but got removed by svec
          - Champions unanimously approved in Oct 25 conference call

52. 1645 SV-BC  behavior of keywords directives at end of compilation unit
          - October 29, 2007 the SV-BC approved, with 3 no votes
            Cliff, Heath, Stu  believe the original restriction is good and that
            `begin directives should be paired to avoid the potential case where
            multiple files are compiled in the same compilation unit and
            somebody forgot to turn off the keywords somewhere in the middle of
            the list of files. To silently tun off the keywords by reaching an
            EOF is a bad idea (in Cliff's opinion). An error for a missing
            `end_keywords directive can be quite useful.
          - Champions approved in Nov 8 conference call, with 1 abstain (Stu)

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