> For example ".all", in Ada is used to "dereference pointers" while in VHDL it is used to import everything from a library. In VHDL, the meaning of the suffi

> For example ".all", in Ada is used to "dereference pointers" while in VHDL it is used to import everything from a library. In VHDL, the meaning of the suffix all depends on kind of the prefix. When the prefix is an object of access type, it behaves similarly to Ada.