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From: george@ole.UUCP (George Lippincott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.vhdl
Subject: concatenations on the left side of assignments
Message-ID: <1994@ole.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 91 20:43:54 GMT
Organization: Seattle Silicon Corp., Bellevue, WA.
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I would like to thank the people that responded to my last posting
on overloading the assignment operators.

I have another question.  I tried to do the following assignment:

	cout & sum <= a + b + cin;

It seems that this is considered a syntax error because signal assignments
can only be made to static signal names.  My question is why isn't a
concatenation appropriate for the left-hand side of an assignment?  Even
though it is not a name, its width and type can be determined during
elaboration.

Also, this same problem seems to exist for aliases.  I can't declare an
alias for a concatenation of two or more signals.
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