Nate Foster
In the interest of tidying up the set of active issues on the P4 specification repository, I'm marking this as "stalled" and closing it. Of course, we can always re-open...
I might be misremembering, but I don't recall expressing a preference for option (2) -- I'm afraid I don't yet understand the precise behavior of the proposed extern in enough...
Closing as this question has been anwered.
Could we allow assigning `true` and `false` with the following interpretation? Assigning a `bool` to a header sets its validity bit...
@vgurevich IMHO, special cases like this are generally a bad idea in language design.
Have we done this now? Can we close it?
I think we should try to reach consensus rather than making a snap decision. I think the 1.5 years delay is mostly due to lack of interest / pushing from...
Directions were originally intended to indicate calling conventions -- a defensible language design choice. (Ab)using directionless parameters to indicate the control-plane parameters was always controversial. Experience has shown that it...
- Mario Baldi reports that developing this feature will be on a compiler development roadmap for spring 2024, in `p4c`. - There seems to be broad agreement among the LDWG...
In the interest of tidying up the set of active issues on the P4 specification repository, I'm marking this as "stalled" and closing it. Of course, we can always re-open...