Re: Proposed PAR for trial use standard

Peter J. Ashenden (petera@cs.adelaide.edu.au)
Thu, 27 May 1999 21:03:06 +0930

David Barton wrote:
>
> I have only one concern. Our original mandate from the DASC steering
> committee is that we be able to draw a sharp distinction between the
> OOVHDL effort and the SID group. I am not entirely sure this does
> that; if so, we had better prepare a fairly clear argument for when we
> present the PAR to the steering committee.

Quite so. At FDL in Lausanne last year, we had a join meeting of the
OOVHDL and SID Chairs. We proposed that the SID group focus on language
mechansims for specification and refinement of communication between
entities, and that the OOVHDL group focus on language mechanisms for
abstraction, encapsulation and inheritance of data and (possibly)
inheritance of interfaces and implementation. We agreed that each group
would keep track of what the other was doing and make sure we didn't act
at cross purposes. These agreements were ratified at the OOVHDL group
meeting that followed. I think the proposed PAR wording takes account
of this agreement. Do you agree?

> Confusion reigns.

So what's new?!

Cheers,

PA

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