Re: [vhdl-200x] RFC: New Predefined Attributes: 'actual, and 'formal

From: Brent Hayhoe <bahayhoe@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Sep 07 2014 - 15:59:35 PDT
There has been some discussion on the following proposal:

     http://www.eda-twiki.org/cgi-bin/view.cgi/P1076/NewPredefinedAttributeActual

A suggestion has been made to extend scaler (and composite record) type related 
attributes to objects of these types in the same way that it is done for 
composite array types ('left, 'right, 'low, 'high, etc.)

If this were to be adopted it would make the 'subtype attribute redundant.

So, does anyone know why the 'subtype attribute was adopted rather than just 
extending the prefix of these attributes of scaler types to objects?

Are there any other reasons for its use (apart from accessing type attributes of 
an object)?


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Regards,

         Brent Hayhoe.

Aftonroy Limited


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