Subject: Re: [vhdl-200x] Implicit conversion
From: Jim Lewis (Jim@synthworks.com)
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 16:44:40 PST
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> I agree. If I write
>
> if we_n then
>
> instead of
>
> if we_n = '0' then
>
>
> by mistake, I'd rather find out at compile time than simulation time
I don't buy this argument. I think if you write:
if we_n then instead of: if not we_n then
then you are just as likely to write:
if we_n = '1' then instead of: if we_n = '0' then
Either way, if you don't verify your design well enough,
well, then you get what you get.
> VHDL's ability to find errors at compile time is a great
> benefit and I'm opposed to anything that weakens that.
I agree, but I don't really think this weakens anything.
I personally was very annoyed about IEEE 1164 picking a
resolved type as the defacto type rather than picking
an unresolved type (std_ulogic/std_ulogic_vector) and
using the resolved type only for tristates.
In fact, I would change this if I could justify it, but
this will never happen as it would break too much code.
Note backwards compatibility is a big requirement of
the VHDL-200X effort.
Regards,
Jim
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