Re: [myhdl-list] MEP 107 assessment

[Christopher F. <chr...@gm...>]

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>> 1) avoid the issue by using the interpreter
>> to do the lookup outside of the generators
>
> Are there any limitations to this as far as referencing and assignment goes?
>

Best of my knowledge there are no restrictions.  You just have to follow 
the strict coding pattern to locally reference attributes.  The 
attributes can *not* be used in the generator (this is for the current 
conversion support, not the proposed).  I have been surprised with some 
of my recent experiments, though.

Off topic, what do we call a function with generators that models 
hardware and potentially convertible.  In Verilog we have /module/ but 
that overlaps with Python /module/.  VHDL we have /entity/ and 
/architecture/ but it is not a similar enough to use one of those terms. 
  We don't want to use /function/ because it is too general.  What is 
the most appropriate term, /MyHDL function/?

Regards,
Chris