Re: required parameters

Martin -
The subcommittee felt that "required parameters" was not a common
feature for compact models, and if the behavior was necessary, it
could be achieved with the $param_given() function that was added
for other reasons; we don't need requiredparam.

-Geoffrey

Martin O'Leary wrote:
>
> The requirement to have default values for parameters is a pretty fundamental thing in Verilog. I think it is unwise for to change this unless we have a very compelling reason. Think that should be up to the Verilog guys to do.
>
> If we need to force a parameters to be required, seems like it would be more consistent with how parameters have been extended in Verilog to create a new parameter keyword called "requiredparam" (like localparam, specparam).
>
> Thanks,
> --Martin
Received on Mon May 24 07:10:41 2004