Positional association in instantiations

Most VHDL designers prefer using named associations in port maps, generic maps, and parameter lists in instantiations. This makes it a lot easier to spot wrong connections. Sigasi provides a linting rule that checks whether positional associations are used. This rule is disabled by default, but you can change the severity of this check on the Errors/Warnings settings page in the Style validation section.

VHDL
architecture RTL of dut is

   component my_comp port (
      clk  : in  std_logic;
      rst  : in  std_logic;
      inp  : in  std_logic;
      outp : out std_logic);
   end component;

begin
   i_comp_1: my_comp port map( -- positional associations not recommended
      clk,
      rst,
      data_in(0),
      open
   );

   i_comp_2: my_comp port map( -- named associations recommended
      clk  => clk,
      rst  => rst,
      inp  => data_in(0),
      outp => open
   );
end architecture RTL;

Rule configuration

This rule can be disabled for your project, or its severity and parameters can be modified in the project linting settings. Alternatively, it can be manually configured using one of the following templates, depending on the type of project you use.

For Modular Projects, add these entries to your project's .sigasi/settings.json settings file. To scope the settings to a specific folder or file instead of the whole project, place them inside an @override block; to scope them to a specific target, place them inside a @targets block.
JSONC
```
{
    "vhdl.rules.164.severity": "{ERROR|WARNING|INFO|IGNORE}"
}
```
For Classic Projects, add the VHDL lines to .settings/com.sigasi.hdt.vhdl.linting.prefs and the Verilog/SystemVerilog lines to .settings/com.sigasi.hdt.verilog.linting.prefs:
PREFS
```
164/severity/${path}={error|warning|info|ignore}
```