RE: Case sensitivity?

Oops.

What I was trying to say was ...

There's evidently a problem with IBISCHK V3.2.5.

Sorry for not being clear.

Todd.

Todd Westerhoff
SI Engineer
Hammerhead Networks
5 Federal Street
Billerica, MA 01821
twester@hhnetwk.com
ph: 978-671-5084

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Davis [mailto:aldavis@ieee.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:50 PM
To: Todd Westerhoff; ibis@eda.org
Subject: Re: Case sensitivity?

On Wednesday 18 July 2001 12:42 pm, Todd Westerhoff wrote:
> I'm using IBISCHK V3.2.5 and have noticed that the handling of the
> keywords
>
> Si_location
> Timing_location
>
> seems to be case sensitive, although the IBIS Spec says that
> keywords are supposed to be case-insensitive. Anyone else seen the
> same thing?

"keywords" (those names in square brackets) are case-insensitive.

Parameters and attributes (those names not in square brackets) are
case sensitive.

We had discussions on this in the IBIS-X committee, mostly about what
we should do going forward. I also asked users, managers, and
software developers for their preference. Overwhelmingly, the
preference was for NOT case sensitive.

After all that, we decided that IBIS-X would not change the rules.
We will continue whatever rules traditional IBIS uses.

Personally, I think the existing rules are trouble prone and
confusing, but we decided to continue them anyway.

Todd, if you (or anyone else) want to change the rules to something
more consistent, please introduce a BIRD requesting it. The rest of
the world will thank you for it.

 
Received on Wed Jul 18 14:04:35 2001