Minutes of VerilogAMS LRM Committee Call - 20/21 Dec 2004

Hi Sri,

Thanks for the update. One question:

Chandrasekaran Srikanth-A12788 writes:
> - The issue of reducing keywords in VerilogAMS is currently being
> discussed. Changing all the math operators to have a "$" sign
> in front of it so that they don't need to be identified as
> keywords in the language. This will be consistent with
> SystemVerilog which supports external functions and also in
> line with 136-2005 ($trig functions is not part of 1995 or
> 2001). This issue will be taken up as part of the LRM 2.3
> syntax.

Is there a compelling reason to do this? As a practical matter it
won't make SV-AMS any simpler, because everyone would have to
re-implement all these operators as $opertor. This change will make
backward compatibility a mess.

Brian M.
Received on Mon Dec 20 14:54:12 2004