VASG Issue Number:      0178
Comment Author:         Clive Charlwood for Sivaram Nayudu
Comment Number:         01
Comment Date:           1991/03/22

LRM 5.1 page 5-2:
        "An attribute specification with the entity name list OTHERS or ALL
        for a given entity class that appears in a declarative region must
        be the last such specification for the given entity class in that
        declarative region. No entity in the specified entity class may be
        declared in a given declarative region following such an attribute
        specification."

In our opinion, the fact that a specification applies to 0 (zero) entities in
a given class does not effect the design or the simulation. This certainly is
not an error but a given implementation should be free to issue warning
messages in these cases.

However, it should be pointed out that because of the quoted paragraph from
LRM it is not possible to declare any entities of that class in the same
declarative region.

LRM 5.1 should be modified to include:
        "It is not an error if there is an attribute specification that
         applies to 0 (zero) entities of a given class."