Subject: RE: [sv-bc] proposal for nested modules and interfaces
From: Kevin Cameron (sv-xx@grfx.com)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 14:37:20 PST
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Jonathan Bromley wrote:
> > 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...
$root is only instantiated once and has no parent, I don't think it's
really the same.
It seems like dangerous behavior to me since it could lead to
unnecessary stuff being instantiated without warning.
Kev.
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