Re: Still need an answer on null ports

From: Adam Krolnik (adamk@cyrix.com)
Date: Tue May 05 1998 - 00:31:15 PDT

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>I think that null ports should be explicitly allowed in the BNF and
>described in section 12.3.1 which defines the types of module ports.

It seems to me that the only reason to have a null port is to allow
a dangling comma at the end of the port list. I would be in favor of
treating the grammar ',' ')' and ',' ',' as whitespace.

What can one do with a port not named?

     Adam Krolnik
     Verification Engineer
     Cyrix - NSM.
     Richardson TX. 75085

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