From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7cc61f141d214cee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Matthew Heaney" Subject: Re: what does preelaborated package mean? Date: 1999/10/26 Message-ID: <3815da0d_2@news1.prserv.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 540822544 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <7v3m2n$2cpo@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Complaints-To: abuse@prserv.net X-Trace: 26 Oct 1999 16:42:53 GMT, 32.101.8.238 Organization: Global Network Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services Mime-version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7v3m2n$2cpo@drn.newsguy.com> , mitch@nospam wrote: > what exactly does this mean? I know what elaboration means, which is > done at run time. So, a package that is 'preelaborated', when does > this happen? and if this is a good thing, why not do everything like > that? Basically, it means that you can't do any initialization of local objects. -- Science is, foremost, a method of interrogating reality: proposing hypotheses that seem true and then testing them -- trying, almost perversely, to negate them, elevating only the handful that survive to the status of a theory. Creationism is a doctrine, whose adherents are interested only in seeking out data that support it. George Johnson, NY Times, 15 Aug 1999