Re: [vhdl-200x-ft] Implicitly referencing std.textio and library IEEE

Selon John Michael Williams <jwill@AstraGate.net>:

> Hi Jim.
>
> I recommend against it: It just saves typing
> (or cut-and-paste) of a couple of lines of
> text, and it creates difficulties for someone
> wanting to use the VHDL language in some reasonable
> but nonstandard way.
>
> I'd rather see VHDL 200x simplified than made more
> complicated.
I strongly second.
I/O are used only in a few units. Therfore, automatically adding them makes
analysis bloated.

I strongly recommand not to make IEEE special. That's the beauty and the
power of VHDL.

[Jim:]
> > Implicitly referencing std.textio would make usage of
> > textio more consistent with the usage model being introducted
> > by the other packages (std_logic_1164, numeric_std, ...)
> > since they include read and write in them.
The mistake is here: why read/write will be included in
std_logic_1164/numeric_std ?

Tristan.
Received on Fri Dec 3 00:27:34 2004