Side effect

[lius@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Scott Liu)]

Recently, I wrote an Ada program with side effect on a function, 
called NEXT, which is used on both type and variable declarations.
I got very weird program output when I ran it using TeleSoft Ada 
compiler.  Is this a compilation error or compiler-dependent feature?

Thanks for your comments.

Sying-Syang Liu
Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Florida
UUCP: {ihnp4,rutgers}!codas!ufcsv!lius
Internet mail: lius@ufl.edu


------ Program source -------------

with TEXT_IO; use TEXT_IO;
procedure SET2 is
  ID:INTEGER:=0;

  function NEXT return INTEGER is
  begin
    ID:=ID+1;
    return ID;
  end;

begin
  declare
    type BIG is record X:INTEGER:=NEXT; end record;  -- ???
    A:array (1..5) of BIG;                           -- ???
    B:integer:=NEXT;
  begin
    for I in A'RANGE loop
      PUT(INTEGER'IMAGE(A(I).X));
    end loop;
    PUT_LINE(INTEGER'IMAGE(B));
  end;
end;

----- Program output -----

 1 2 3 4 5 6

--------------------------
Note: I expected to have the output 
	1 1 1 1 1 2