Hi
In the tutorial, Lesson 2, about parameterized interfaces, it says (among
other things):
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Here,
unique("Timer")
generates a unique 8-bit number from a set corresponding to the string
"Timer". Therefore, Every component that uses unique("Timer") is
guaranteed to get a different 8-bit value as long as the string used in
the argument is the same. Note that if one component uses unique("Timer")
and another uses unique("MyTimer"), they might get the same 8-bit value.
Therefore it's good practice to use the name of the parameterized
interface as an argument to the unique() function. The compile-time
constant function
uniqueCount("Timer")
will count the number of uses of unique("Timer").
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For the timer component, it is not only good practice, but _required_ to
use the string "Timer" as an identifier. TimerM.nc includes code like
this:
if (id>=uniqueCount("Timer")) return FAIL;
which clearly assumes that clients have been using the string "Timer" as
the identifier.
I suggest the tutorial should reflect this. Maybe good practice should
rather be that it is required to use the name of the interface as the
identifier?
Mads
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