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Vec literals

See original GitHub issue

Now that a new literal framework is in place after #820, would it make sense to create a mechanism (possibly by co-opting VecInit or by creating a VecLit constructor) to create Vec literals? The current closest equivalent, VecInit, still creates a wire and assigns the literals to it the old way we worked around lack of bundle literals.

Type of issue: feature request

Impact: no functional change | API addition (no impact on existing code)

Development Phase: request | proposal

Issue Analytics

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:13 (12 by maintainers)

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ducky64commented, May 19, 2019

I’d disagree. I can’t think of any language off the top of my head which requires over-specification like that (both explicitly the number of elements, and implicitly as the size of the argument list). Even C allows something like int arr[] = {0, 1, 2}; (though you could also explicitly specify the array length if you wanted to). This style also becomes a maintenance burden, as if you have a mismatch, you might not notice until you get a runtime error.

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jackkoenigcommented, Feb 26, 2021

There is a PR 🙂 : https://github.com/chipsalliance/chisel3/pull/1793

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