RE: [sv-bc] Are modport port directions enforced?

From: Jonathan Bromley <jonathan.bromley_at_.....>
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 05:53:46 PST
[Shalom]

> According to this interpretation, variables are passed as ref ports,
> which really do reference the original, and one could look at nets as
> using port collapsing. Does that make sense?

Not to me.  If it is that way, what is the difference between 
"ref" and "output" in a modport, given that port mode "output"
has never stopped us reading things?
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