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Subject: SPARK constants across packages
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:53:00 -0700 (PDT)
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SPARK appears to forbid this:

  X : constant Integer := P.Y;

Where Y is a constant of the same type defined in package P;
The grammar for SPARK 95 specifies that only a
static_simple_expression can appear after the assignment
operator for constant declarations.

Is there a particular reason that SPARK doesn't allow this?