Subject: RE: [sv-bc] Disagreement with Closure of 19-66
From: Karen Pieper (Karen.Pieper@synopsys.com)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 10:05:09 PST
Hi, Matt,
        The reason that 19-66 was closed and Dan suggested to move it over to the 
SV-EC is that
the proposal to use parameters in $root is an enhancement, not a fix to an 
issue in the current
behavior.  The reason was that the constant declarations in $root are not 
overrideable, and that is exactly the semantics of localparam.  If 
parameter was used as the keyword, it would appear that parameter
declarations in $root are overridable through defparam, or whatever.  Note 
that the localparams
are visible everywhere because of the nesting hierarchy of $root.
For everyone else,  does this accurately capture everyone else's 
understanding of the issue?
Karen
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