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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Initializers
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:59:12 +0100
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Larry Kilgallen a �crit :
> In article <1166580131.054327.67090@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com>, "markww" <markww@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I'm trying to compare C++ to Ada. I'm looking specifically at Ada's
>> lack of 'initializers'. I am guessing that this means there is no
>> 'constructor' to Ada packages maybe? If that's the case - where do you
>> initialize anything that needs setup when it comes into existence?
> 
> For record components (the most common case I run into) take care of
> it in the type declaration:
> 
> 	FIELD_1 : INTEGER := 15;
> 	FIELD_2 : STRING ( 1 .. 5 ) := "Omaha";
.. And for packages, put a sequence of statement in the body of the package:

package body Blah is
   -- Declarations
begin
   -- do any initialization here
end Blah;

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