+-- Shortcut for Extended VHDL Id's. These Id's can contain a lot more
+-- different characters than basic ids, but can never be used to refer to
+-- basic ids.
+-- Use extended Ids for any values that are taken from the source file.
+mkVHDLExtId :: String -> AST.VHDLId
+mkVHDLExtId s =
+ AST.unsafeVHDLExtId $ strip_invalid s
+ where
+ -- Allowed characters, taken from ForSyde's mkVHDLExtId
+ allowed = ['A'..'Z'] ++ ['a'..'z'] ++ ['0'..'9'] ++ " \"#&\\'()*+,./:;<=>_|!$%@?[]^`{}~-"
+ strip_invalid = filter (`elem` allowed)
+