RE: [sv-bc] proposal for nested modules and interfaces

Subject: RE: [sv-bc] proposal for nested modules and interfaces
From: Jonathan Bromley (jonathan.bromley@doulos.com)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 09:34:58 PST

> Why would you want to implicitly instantiate a nested module
> anyway?

If you are writing the nested module to encapsulate some
piece of local functionality, and you need that functionality
only once, it seems pretty silly to have to instantiate it
immediately after defining it.

It also matches with the way modules get instantiated
into $root (or whatever $root is called these days!); any
uninstantiated portless module is a top-level and is
therefore implicitly instantiated in the elaborated
simulation. So, all your regular modules are in fact
merely nested modules in $root... 

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