WHY -1 IS USED IN THE BLOCKS FOR INHERITING SAMPLETIME

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-1 IS USED FOR INHERTING THE SAMPLE TIME OF PREVIOUS BLOCK AND WHY -1 IS USED TO DEFINE THAT

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2022-10-31
Sample times are stored as double precision numbers. Any finite positive double precision number might be a valid sample time.
The possible representations for "inherited" are thus limited to 0, negative numbers, or the non-finite values +inf, -inf, or nan. 0 is, though used for other purposes (involving discrete time) so the choices became a negative number or a non-finite number.
Of these possibilities, the shortest to write are -1 through -9, at two characters each, whereas inf and nan need three and -inf needs four characters. Furthermore, in many instructions there is a separate internal path for processing nan so nan is slower than finite values. For example you cannot use "if sampletime == nan" because nan has a special path for all relational operations that say that the results of a test involving nan are always false.
So for simplicity and performance, the choices were -1 through -9. And there was no particular reason to choose anything other than -1 (which is arguably also the easiest for users to remember.)
If I recall correctly, -2 and -3 are also used internally for some purposes.

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