Re: [myhdl-list] Error in user defined VHDL code& amp; quot; should show line, and column for error, rather than & amp; quot; index& amp; quot;

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

Angel Ezquerra wrote:

> 
> I had a quick look at the string.Template library, and it is
> very simple and easy to use. It seems that it would cover the
> regular use case, which is to connect signals to VHDL ports,
> very well. It also seems that it would be less error prone than
> direct string formatting.
> 
> Since you could still generate the template string itself 
> dynamically, I don't think that changing to the template 
> library would be any less flexible than the current method.
> So I cannot see any drawbacks to your proposal.

Ok, what we could do is specify that the code for the
new function attribute 'vhdl_code' is actually such a
template, which would force you to help me debugging
those :-)

If that's OK, I'll put this change on top of the stack.

Jan

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