Attendees:
  Mark Hahn, Cadence
  Tom Dewey, Mentor
  Bob Dilly, IBM
  Jim Engel, IBM
  John Paul, IBM
  Vikas Sharma, IBM
New action items:
      Who         When     What
      ----------  ------   --------
 1.   Bob         11/16    Send Mark contact info for Magma
 2.   Tom         11/16    Complete updates to 0.1.1 spec from review
 3.   Tom         11/16    Investigate ways to automatically extract
                           examples from the document
Open action items:
      Who         When     What
      ----------  ------   --------
 1.   Vikas       11/9     Review derived_waveform and derived_clock
Closed action items:
      Who         When     What
      ----------  ------   --------
 1.   Mark        11/9     Send the GCF 1.4 spec to Bob and Tom
 2.   All         11/9     Review pages 19-21, 25-32 in the spec
 3.   Mark        7/27     Prepare Microsoft Project schedule for the
                  -> 11/9  second half of '99.
Next Meeting:
  The next meeting will be a teleconference on 10/26
  from 9-11 am (PDT).
Details:
  1. Review action items
     Mark posted a first pass at the schedule for completing the
     DCDL spec on the web site, as well as the GCF 1.4 spec (for
     DC-WG review purposes only).
  2. Review the Introduction and Basic Language Features sections
     in the draft (pp 19-21, 25-32)
     We went through a lot of detailed feedback, covering up to
     page 26 in the 0.1.1 version.  A few highlights:
       - We agreed that there DCDL should impose a define before use
         restriction, as it will significantly ease application development
       - We want to be able to extract examples from the text and
         automatically verify correctness
       - In general, DCDL will explicitly specify syntax rules that
         are identical to the rules in a specific version of Tcl (to
         be chosen).  In some cases, where the Tcl rules are too arcane,
         DCDL may specify a more restrictive rule that still ensures
         Tcl compatibility
       - Fine points about legal white space are deferred for now
       - DCDL keywords include the '-' (dash)
  3. Discuss derived clocks
  4. Discuss schedule and technical editing requirements
     We ran out of time to discuss these.
Thanks,
Mark
-- Mark Hahn phone: (408) 428-5399 Senior Architect fax: (408) 428-5959 Cadence Design Systems email: mhahn@cadence.com