Bidirectional bus - noob question

Thanks. I think I'll give VHDL a go, people seem to say that might be better than Verilog for beginners as it's supposedly a bit harder to shoot yourself in the foot with it :-)

I'll use muxes then - I just wanted to check I wasn't missing something. The synthesizer gives warnings if I use tri-states, and I don't like getting warnings if I can help it, and I like to know what is really happening rather than have things changed to something 'similar', so using muxes makes me happier.