Signed Roots allow calculating the merkle hash of a subset of a SSZ container, specifically to allow signing of a container while excluding signature fields.
While this definition signed_root(container, "signature") = merkle_hash([hash_tree_root(sub_object_1), ..., hash_tree_root(sub_object_N)]) has been deprecated in further versions of the Eth2 SSZ spec, I see no harm in allowing public callers to use SSZ#merkleHash directly for compatibility.
Signed Roots allow calculating the merkle hash of a subset of a SSZ container, specifically to allow signing of a container while excluding signature fields.
While this definition
signed_root(container, "signature") = merkle_hash([hash_tree_root(sub_object_1), ..., hash_tree_root(sub_object_N)])has been deprecated in further versions of the Eth2 SSZ spec, I see no harm in allowing public callers to useSSZ#merkleHashdirectly for compatibility.