Re: using `use' : what is the best practice ?

["Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>]

Stefan Lucks wrote:

[with/use]
>> Agreed. VHDL does not need this redundancy.
>
> Do you mean, in VHDL you can write "use P;" without "with P"? (Or what
> kind of Syntax VHDL uses for Ada's "with Name" and "use Name" ...)

It's a couple of years already, so I may not remember correctly, but AFAIR you can:

library IEEE;  use IEEE.Std_Logic_1164;
                use IEEE.Std_Logic_Arith;

And thus, directly use child packages.

> Or do you mean you can write "P.Some_Procedure(...)" or "P.Some_Type"
> without any "with" or "use" before?

No.


Vinzent.

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