Re: Elaboration order

[Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>]

Ken Garlington wrote:
> 
> Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> >
> >    BUT, and this is what makes it so painless, either your program
> > runs or you get PROGRAM_ERROR right off the bat, so leaving out a
> > (potentially) required pragma Elaborate is pretty harmless.
> 
> I have to tell you, a development philosophy that says, "Oh, well,
> if I make a mistake, I'll see an exception" rubs me the wrong way.
> Maybe I just don't have that Ada mindset...

Then I guess after 7 years of using Ada, I don't have the Ada mindset
either.

Again, the general rule is: don't call routines from other packages in
package specs, package body declarations, or package body code. If for
some reason you can't follow this rule, use a pragma elaborate. 

While dependance on order of elaboration (w/o pragma elaborate) is not
technicly erronious, I ding it every time I see it in a walkthrough.

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