Re: Package with initialization only

["Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org>]

Gautier wrote:
 
> A small "aesthetic" problem: I have a package with initialization only;
> thus I must add a dummy procedure to resolve the with/without body
> ambiguity Ada95 doesn't accept. There is surely a more elegant formulation,
> surely with OO, since the initialization procedure affects the public
> variable of the package. Its present state:

  This was considered when the change in the rule for package bodies was
made,  the solution was to add a legality rule--RM 10.2.1(25):  "If a
pragma Elaborate_Body applies to a declaration, then the declaration
requies a completion (a body)."
 
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                                        Robert I. Eachus

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