[myhdl-list] Re: always_comb problem

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

David Brochart wrote:
> Or maybe there is a better way to do it. Could we have comments around the area
> of code we want to ignore, like this:
>     #Translate off
>     print ...
>     #Translate on
> This would allow us to add more options in the future.

I don't like this kind of "comment abuse". Code that
is supposed to have some significant effect, should be
part of the language definition in my opinion. Something
like the above could be alternatively done by defining
"pragma's" using the syntax of the language.

Note that Verilog (from where I suppose you got the
inspiration) has moved to dedicated pragma syntax in
SystemVerilog, for synthesis directives etc.

A related practical problem is that comments are not
part of the abstract syntax tree as produced by the
Python compiler package. This would mean that some
dedicated special processing would be required to
support comment processing - not good.

Jan

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