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Subject: Re: search some good vhdl preprocessor (opensource)
From: Andy <jonesa...@comcast.net>
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Hopefully, the only "preprocessing" allowed will be to address tool incompa=
tibility, especially WRT new LRM features not yet universally supported.=20

I adamantly oppose standardizing anything approaching the common pre-proces=
sors in use with other languages today. They are too often abused to allow =
lazy, unmaintaibable coding, while slowing the development of language feat=
ures to accomplish the same functionality. Exhibit A: SystemVerilog and UVM=
.

For those that want to incorporate a pre-processor in their tool flow, that=
 is fine, but as far as the standard is concerned, such capability should b=
e considerably limited.

Just my $0.02...

Andy