Re: [vhdl-200x] Minutes for VHDL-200X-FT meeting, San Jose Dec 4, 2003

Subject: Re: [vhdl-200x] Minutes for VHDL-200X-FT meeting, San Jose Dec 4, 2003
From: Hamish Moffatt (hamish_moffatt@agilent.com)
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 15:33:56 PST

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Marcus Harnisch wrote:
> [not a DASC member]

Nor I.

> I did not participate in the meeting, so my knowledge about the items
> is limited to the slides. Anyway, here are some comments:
>
> - To_String
>
> Please. Just don't use the shorter names.

[...]

to_string seems to duplicate 'image to some extent; could 'image be
improved instead?

> - Make conditional signal assignment a ternary operator
>
> Why not for variables as well? Did I miss anything?

How about for constants? It would be useful to choose a value based on
other constants, generics etc. It would be simpler than writing a
function to make the same decision.

> - Read Output Ports
>
> Can we keep that restricted to non-synthesis? If we get native
> signal spy features into VHDL, why not use that instead?

That doesn't seem like the same thing really. Reading output ports seems
useful for avoiding delta races at least.

Hamish

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