[J3] [EXTERNAL] Re: Re: Slides available for your preview - Part 2 of the Generics Tutorial today at the J3 plenary

[Van Snyder]

On Tue, 2021-03-09 at 22:48 +0000, Mark LeAir wrote:
> Van mentioned:
>  
> Is the "plethora of parameters" problem an artifact of mashing
> together things that aren't really related, or an artifact of
> extending something by adding somthing else,
> that needs the same parameters, and a few others?
> 
> 
>           It seems to me that this could be addressed by
> instantiating simpler parameterized modules within a parameterized
> module, to make a synthesis of several.
>  
> 
> 
> Yeah, I have been wondering if we also allowed modules to be
> parameterized by other modules, then this might address the concern
> of long parameter lists in parameterized modules. That is, the
> module-parameter could encapsulate parameters needed by the
> parameterized
>  module. These module-parameters could also be reused across multiple
> parameterized modules if one desired.
> 
>  
> -Mark

Modules and generic modules were listed as desirable parameters in
section 8.1 of 04-383r1.
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