Re: [vhdl-200x-ft] Suggestion to drop FT29

Peter,

-- pragma Jim's biased opinion on ...

Since the other base packages are including textio read and write
routines and since textio cannot be moved into package standard,
it would seem a good compromise would be to implicitly reference it.

Of course, one reason not to include textio would be based on a
belief that using some enhancement to the language we can come
up with a better set of functionality that will replace
textio totally.  Do you have something in mind?

I realize that perhaps we are referencing a package that is not
used (such as with RTL designs), but is there a penalty in terms
of simulation performance for referencing a package that is not
used?

On the other hand, just referencing library IEEE w/o the other
packages, does not do alot and perhaps would be better to be
included in a context clause.

Cheers,
Jim



> Folks,
> 
> FT29 proposes to include the following in the standard context:
> 
>   use std.textio.all ; 
>   library ieee ;
> 
> That is, each design unit should implicitly include these clauses in its
> context clause.
> 
> Now that we have a complete proposal for context declarations (FT16), may I
> suggest that it largely obviates FT29?  In that case, we can drop FT29 from
> consideration.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> PA
> 
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