[PEAK] Laziness, terminology, and the Trellis API

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:37 AM 3/17/2008 -0700, Grant Baillie wrote:
>- I'm a little fuzzy on what the difference between maintain and
>variable is. Is it just that, in the simple case, "maintain" is the
>old trellis.rule, and "variable" trellis.value?

Yes.  And 'maintain(initially=)' would be the combination of both, 
i.e. a rule *and* a value in the current API.

>- On the use of 'resets_to', maybe there is some word related
>'baseline' or 'base' that works better? (Maybe I spent too much time
>looking at oscilloscope screens in my youth :).

If you have such a word, feel free to suggest it.  I don't know what 
one would be.  Especially one that would also be clear to non-scope 
junkies.  :)