On 5/24/2019 4:25 PM, Yanghao Hua wrote:
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 5:45 PM Terry Reedy
wrote: What I understand is that you are doing discrete-time hardware simulation and that you need a operator that will schedule future assigments to int-like objects. Have you considered using '@' to do that? int @ int-expression is currently invalid, so defining it will not interfere with other int operations. What am I not understanding?
I am not sure if I understood this. The intention is to e.g. assign a signal with a value in a nature way, e.g. signal <== 5, are you saying to replace <== with @?
That is what i meant, but reading
I really really would like either a equal sign
suggests '@=' as a better alternative. (I am not sure if the implementation would be equally easy or hard.) How does 'signal @= 5' look? Either is pragmatic in that these exist since a few versions ago, and cannot interfere with existing integer expressions, rather than in the far very hypothetical future.
not really intuitive though
'@' means 'at' and you want to make the assignment 'at the next time mark' (or whatever you call it). This is more intuitive to me than seeing '@' as 'matrix-multiply' because 'matrix' contains 'at'. When we added @, it was known and intended that it could serve other then unknown uses. -- Terry Jan Reedy