RE: [sv-ec] $root vs $unit

Yes, unless the whole design is a single compilation unit. 
Then $unit is a global scope. Some users may continue to work
this way. 

If you are doing separate compilation, then only packages can
be globally accessed from anywhere in the design. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bresticker, Shalom [mailto:shalom.bresticker@intel.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:18 AM
> To: Mark Hartoog
> Cc: sv-ec@eda.org
> Subject: RE: [sv-ec] $root vs $unit
> 
> But $unit still refers only to the local compilation-unit 
> scope. It is not possible to reference something which is 
> declared in another compilation-unit scope's $unit. There is 
> no longer a concept of a truly global declaration scope.
> 
> Shalom
> 
> > Tools may currently have backwards compatibility modes with 
> SV 3.0/3.1 
> > where they are still accepting $root.<typeName>, but this is now 
> > illegal and should be changed to $unit::<typeName>.
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