Re: [vhdl-200x] Implicit conversion, Overloading, & Strong Typing

Subject: Re: [vhdl-200x] Implicit conversion, Overloading, & Strong Typing
From: Evan Lavelle (anti.spam1@dsl.pipex.com)
Date: Fri Dec 19 2003 - 01:02:52 PST

Bailey, Stephen wrote:
> Hamish,
> ...
> We actually discussed an alternative way to arrive at the same
> functionality. Since people seem to be hung up on this implicit call
> and cannot make the connection to how it is just a tiny extension to
> operator overloading capabilities already in the language:
>
> - What if assert, if, elsif, until, when and while were defined in the language as operators.

This would be a(nother) real headache for implementors. These operators
could only appear at specific places, they couldn't form part of
expressions, an operator could form a complete statement, and so on.

Evan Lavelle

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