Re: [vhdl-200x-ft] Revised FT18: condition operator

From: <tgingold@free.fr>
Date: Wed Dec 01 2004 - 04:27:48 PST

Selon Peter Ashenden <peter@ashenden.com.au>:

> Folks,
>
> Attached is a revision to the FT18 proposal document reflecting my
> suggestions in my earlier email (also attached). The concensus was to adopt
> the suggestions.
A comment (I hope it is not too late).

It is interesting for "??" to be an operator ?
How confusing would be assignment such as:
  res <= ?? a = '1';
Why allowing "??" in expressions ?

My second concern is what you entitled 'this does not fit within my
methodology'. The reply was: 'it is ok not to use it'. This is a too weak
reply, since you can use this feature without knowing it. That's an
advantage of language such as VHDL: you know when you use a feature or not.
The natural way is to use a separate package, but this is not popular. Maybe
the use of context clauses could defeat the 'too many packages' argument ?

My third concern is the profusion of logical operators in standard. This shows
something is turning wrong.

Tristan.
Received on Wed Dec 1 04:27:56 2004

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