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From: xorque <xorquewasp@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Forcing use of "constructors"
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:55 -0800 (PST)
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Hello, all.

What's the preferred way to mandate that objects be created by
the use of given "constructor" subprograms?

By this, I mean that I want to create a type and the only way to
get new values of this type is to use a subprogram that I provide.

* It's a record type.
* A few of the components must be set to "sensible" values before
  use.
* What constitutes a "sensible" value isn't known until runtime.
* I don't particularly want to add "is initialized" checks on all
  subprograms in the package.

Regards,
xw