Re: [myhdl-list] Characterstringhandling

[Thomas T. <tho...@de...>]

Jan Decaluwe wrote:

> Mm. I want the intbv to be almost an int, not a string, and
> I want MyHDL to preserve strong typing. This is not perl :-)
> 
> Why can't you use enumerated types for your purpose?
> 
> command = enum("YES", "NO", "MAYBE")
> 
> a.next = command.YES
> if a == command.NO:

Besides it is a lot of typing ("strong typing" ;-) ) it does not help, 
when parsing real text strings.
But I don't want to start a philosophical discussion about any kind of 
typing.

I would use:

  a.next = ord("y")
  if a == ord("y"):

But that also does not work. The verilog code looks like this:

  if ((char == ord(y))) begin

It does not seem to be Verilog syntax, is it?
Maybe the conversion result should be

  if  ((char == 121)) begin

Would you agree?

Maybe I can supply a patch for this - but it seems to be not that easy.