One of the current goals of Mantis proposals 1702 and 1447 is to make all kinds of unpacked array other than associative be assignment-compatible with one another wherever it's reasonable (size OK, elements assignment-compatible). The language in both those proposals is sometimes a little tortured because we lack a simple umbrella term for the three sorts of array: queue, dynamic, and fixed-size unpacked. I don't know whether Mike Burns and I would have time to make use of any such term in the proposals, but does anyone have any strong feelings about this? Here are a few candidates I thought of: sequential array contiguous unpacked array linear unpacked array non-associative unpacked array ??? -- Jonathan Bromley, Consultant DOULOS - Developing Design Know-how VHDL * Verilog * SystemC * e * Perl * Tcl/Tk * Project Services Doulos Ltd. Church Hatch, 22 Market Place, Ringwood, Hampshire, BH24 1AW, UK Tel: +44 (0)1425 471223 Email: jonathan.bromley@doulos.com Fax: +44 (0)1425 471573 Web: http://www.doulos.com The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not the views of Doulos Ltd., unless specifically stated. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Tue Nov 27 06:03:10 2007
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