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From: Frode =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tenneb=F8?= <frodet@nvg.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada to C Translator
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:39:45 +0100
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> > Actually, half the time was spent on two
> > part-systems (out of app. 30) with rather nasty circular
> > dependencies.
> 
> Well you probably don't mean circular dependencies, since these
> are illegal in Ada 83 and Ada 95, but more likely you mean code
> where the elaboration is in a mess, due to serious bugs of
> missing pragma Elaborate's. This is not uncommon, and can
> indeed be a pain.

This is indeed what I meant, circular elaboration. Circular 
dependencies is something completely different.

[snip]

> This is definitely a weak
> spot in the design of Ada, I am sorry we could not fix it for
> Ada 95, but there just was not enough time.

How would you suggest go about fixing this? And more importantly; will 
it get fixed in Ada 0x?

 -Frode

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