Assignment and the history operator
I encountered this and found it a bit weird:
reset = in3;
History the_phase(0);
if (reset>0) {
// This doesn't work:
// the_phase = 0;
// This does
the_phase = the_phase*(reset==0);
}
It seems that for the history operator to do assignment it has to involve itself. (even though these statements are logically equal) It was really confusing the first several times I tried to use codebox.
The alternative, I'm guessing, is to have a temporary variable do all the heavy lifting and then do the assignment at the end.
Is there a better way of doing this/reason for why it is the way it is? (I'm fairly sure there's a good reason, and I'd like to follow best/better practices...)
As a follow-up, I tried the local variable approach and encountered the following problem. These two statements should be logically equivalent, but the first one doesn't work, and the second one does. I'm guessing because it has the history value earlier?
// This doesn't work:
if (reset!=0) {
tmp_phase = 0;
} else {
tmp_phase = the_phase;
}
// This DOES work:
if (reset==0) {
tmp_phase = the_phase;
} else {
tmp_phase = 0;
}
I know that I could write it as:
tmp_phase = the_phase*(reset==0);
and this always works, but I'd like to use the conditionals sometimes where I have more things happening during the boolean.
Conditional statements (if/else) and iteration statements (for/while) are in the GenExpr grammar but not implemented yet. Use the ? operator for this kind of behavior for now.