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Date: 17 Sep 92 18:34:34 GMT
From: sampson@cod.nosc.mil  (Charles H. Sampson)
Subject: Re: Using Global Variables
Message-ID: <1992Sep17.183434.492@nosc.mil>
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In article <92261.25962.LJ10891@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> LJ10891@LMSC5.IS.LM
SC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
>   Aww, c'mon guys.  I was under the impression that, in Ada, there's no
>   such animal as a 'global' variable.  There's just 'more' and 'less' local
>   variables.  What's wrong (or difficult, or complicated) about a variable
>   which is in scope in the principal subprogram?  Assuming your particular
>   application calls for it, that is.

     I assumed that the original poster was referring to variable objects
declared in the visible parts of library packages.  What's wrong with these
is, I thought, well-known.

				Charlie