Re: [Gnucap-devel] param-WIP branch

[al davis]

On Friday 19 July 2013, al davis wrote:
> The reason obsolete_callback exists is that there can be 
> expressions of commons, with possibilities that don't fit
> the  parameter=value model, so these files were much more
> difficult than the others.

To clarify ...

The real reason obsolete_callback exists should be evident from 
the word "obsolete".  It's old code, from before any 
consideration of multiple simulation languages, that hasn't been 
converted yet.

That is not the only place in gnucap where there is old yucky 
code in need of replacement.  The most flagrant ones are the 
connectmodule code in e_node* and d_logic*, the output code, and 
the list of if's that enables shortcut command names.  All of 
these are examples of stuff, my own work, that I would not 
accept in new work.

There is also an issue with the difference in "model" code, 
stemming back to the spice notion of a "model" card, essentially 
made obsolete by the notion of cloning a master device.  It 
seemed to make sense at the time.  Now it is unneeded extra 
complexity.  This one will need to change to have full support 
of the Verilog "paramset" as defined by the standard.