Meeting 06/06/05
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Dave Bishop
John Shield
John Ries
Charlie Guy
Jim Lewis


John Shields: @with : separator instantiated package. Not sure Peter understood this.


':' causes problems with PSL, because PSL allows ':' for ranges.

John suggest just using VHPI with following changes.

  1) Replace : with . or /
     Need to have different prefix character to distigush between
     root and elaborated packages, @.  Need an addition character to
     refer to uninstanted view, !.

  2) Doesn't address problem of relative pathnames, up/down references,
     and wildcarding.

  3) Maybe over specification names

  4) Specify required names for unnamed objects.


What would we call the new attribtue, FULLNAME and FULL_INSTANCENAME.
Would it be better to make a break in names and require compilers to
have switch to pick pre200x and post200x names.


What is the requirement for relative searching? Do we need
to do Verilog upward searching through rules? Do we need
an explicit upscope like .. in shells?  The believe is that we
need some manner to go up and over but Verilog rules are not required.

Question for PSL, are PSL identifiers in expressions and property
local names in VHDL or are hierarchical pathnames allowed?  The use
of pathnames in the VUNITs are semi-absolute,  Wildcard names are sort of a
short hand for specifing all absolute pathnames that reach that object.

We need Peter and Eric for resolving issues. 

John Shield stated the FT7 matches VHPI with exception of force release.

David believe we should leave pathname and instance_name allow

Discussion on read operation of std_logic_textio in error case.