Re: Localparam documentation bug??

From: Michael McNamara (mac@verisity.com)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 19:15:33 PST

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    <p><p>Steven Sharp writes:
    >
    > >The BNF appears to be missing the option to permit localparam's in the
    > >ANSI-style parameter list, and the localparam description is pretty short
    > >and does not address the issue.
    > >
    > >Please, somebody tell me that we covered this somewhere in the Standard or
    > >that we intended for this capability to be included in the Standard?
    >
    > I seem to recall this shortcoming being mentioned and not considered
    > important enough to be a major issue. I don't recall this solution being
    > suggested.
    >
    > Steven Sharp
    > sharp@cadence.com
    >

    My recollection concurs with Steven -- we noted it, recognized it was
    a problem, but not nearly as signifigant as others we noticed after
    ballot approval (like that the BNF allowed one to declare wires in
    functions; those signifigant ones we did get fixed).

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