If we are talking about debugging problems, then a very frustrating problem I have frequently encountered with in-line parameter passing is the following: I come to a parametric module. I don't know what the parameter values are in the instantiation. I don't even know who instantiates it. I have to go searching for its instantiation. Then when I finally find it, I find that the actual parameter value is itself a parameter or function of parameters passed down from yet a higher level module. So I have to repeat the process. This can go through several iterations until I get to the final stop. And all this assumes I make no mistakes on the way. By the way, I have found lint tools that don't handle in-line parameter passing well and wind up using the wrong values. ShalomReceived on Wed Nov 9 23:56:38 2005
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