ISSUE 201

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Number 201
Category enhancement
Synopsis module instance without parentheses
State open
Class enhancement
Arrival-DateNov 19 2002
Originator Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com
Release 2001b
Environment
Description
Following yesterday's ETF talk,
is there any reason not to allow a module instance with no port connections not
to have parentheses around an empty port list, but just a module name and a
module instance name?

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From: Peter Flake <Peter.Flake@synopsys.com>
To: Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com
Cc: etf-bugs@boyd.com
Subject: Re: enhancement/201: module instance without parentheses
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:30:50 +0000

>Category: enhancement
>Confidential: no
>Originator: Peter Flake <Peter.Flake@synopsys.com>
>Release: 2001b
>Class: TBD
>Description:
Hi Shalom,

This proposal was in SystemVerilog and it has been deprecated by the Basic
Committee, because it makes a module instance with no port declarations
look like a variable declaration that has a user-defined type. These do
not exist in Verilog, of course.

Regards,

Peter.

At 02:03 PM 11/19/02 +0200, Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com wrote:
>Precedence: bulk
>
>
> >Number: 201
> >Category: enhancement
> >Originator: Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com
> >Environment:
> >Description:
>
>Following yesterday's ETF talk,
>is there any reason not to allow a module instance with no port
>connections not
>to have parentheses around an empty port list, but just a module name and a
>module instance name?


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