Aliases to a Protected Type

Proposal Information

• State of this Proposal: Raw / Stream of Conscious
• Current Owner: JimLewis, ...
• Contributors: JimLewis, ...
• Date Proposed: 2014-Nov-12
• Date Last Updated:
• Priority:
• Complexity:
• Focus: Testbench
• Related Issues: None
• Competing Issues: None

Requirement Summary

Aliases to protected type methods and to protected types themselves allows for name updates to a protected type data structure without having

Alias to Methods -

[Author Comment: Subsumed by ProtectedTypeComposition ]

Motivation: allow methods to have alternate names. During the long term support of data types implemented within a protected type, names change to bring consistency among different data structures. Aliases to methods offers a simple, light weight way to maintain backward compatibility with older naming structures

type ScoreBoardPType is protected
    procedure Push (Item   : in  ExpectedType) ;
. . .
    -- Depreciated, but kept for backward compatibility
    alias PutExpectedData is Push[ExpectedType] ; 
end protected ScoreBoardPType ;

Alias to a Protected Type

[Author Comment: No change required. This feature already supported.]

Motivation: allow methods to have alternate names. During the long term support of data types implemented within a protected type, names change to bring consistency among different data structures.

type CovagePType is protected
    . .  .
end protected CovagePType ;

-- Depreciated, but kept for backward compatibility
alias CovPType is CoveragePType ;

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General Comments

Important for maintaining open source data structures. Permits minor revisions and name changes in interfaces and simplifies changes made to improve consistency between different packages.

Supporters

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-- JimLewis - 2014-12-03

-- Brent Hayhoe - 2014-12-22

-- MortenZilmer - 2015-01-21