Language Change Specification for Anonymous Types

Comments

Version 2

• The term "anonymous type declaration" is not introduced (yes by EBNF, but not textual).
• "a corresponding anonymous formal generic type added to the end of the generic list"
  What if for example a procedures has no generic list? Does every entity have an empty generic list by default OR is a sentence missing, that such a list is created if it doesn't exist?

Other changes:

• For any VHDL construct with a port or parameter association list whose corresponding interface object declaration has a type defined by a an anonymous type declaration, there is a corresponding construct with a generic association list and a port or parameter list. For each port or parameter whose type is specified as an anonymous type declaration, an actual genericassociation element is added to the end of the generic association list to associate the anonymous formal generic type with the subtype of the actual parameter. The original port or parameter list is unchanged.

-- Patrick Lehmann - 2017-01-19

Is there a typo in the syntax definition of anonymous_type_definition ?

-- Tristan Gingold - 2017-01-19

What kind of typo? The difference to LCS 059 is the missing (not required) identifier.

-- Patrick Lehmann - 2017-01-19

interface_type_definition is defined in LCS 059, so this LCS fully depends on 059. In fact, only the editing note has the typo.

-- Tristan Gingold - 2017-01-19

Created Version 3. @TG and @PL thanks for the updates.

• @TG Updated typo in editing note
• @PL.1 Not sure how to address this, not all terms are "introduced".
• @PL.2 Updated p74 and p81 paragraphs to create the generic list if it did not already exist.
• @PL.3 Changed actual generic to association element

-- Jim Lewis - 2017-01-26

Fixed some typos in the example for section 6.5.2.

-- Martin Zabel - 2017-01-30

@MZ Thanks.

-- Jim Lewis - 2017-01-30

Moved anonymous_type_declaration to LCS 059.

-- Patrick Lehmann - 2017-03-12