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From: Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/11/22
Date: 1999-11-22T17:52:38+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <383982E4.110F0F2D@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 81bt4v$7cr$1@nnrp1.deja.com

Robert Dewar wrote:

> So Mats may have been lucky programming without an Elaborate
> seat belt so far, but I do not recommend this risky behavior
> for others! I have seen far too much grief caused by this
> viewpoint.

BTW, I don't think I was just lucky: the elaboration order control was
supposed to be automatic in Ada 80, which of course is not feasible.

I think DEC Ada, and maybe Verdix, went quite some way in the Ada 80
direction before the '83 standard was accepted, so pragma Elaborate was
rarely necessary. Just a suppostion.




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-11-22  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-17  0:00 generic package dilemma Riyaz Mansoor
1999-11-17  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-17  0:00   ` Mats Weber
1999-11-17  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-18  0:00       ` Mats Weber
1999-11-18  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19  0:00           ` Mats Weber
1999-11-19  0:00             ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-19  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19  0:00               ` Mats Weber
1999-11-22  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22  0:00                   ` Mats Weber
1999-11-22  0:00                     ` Bryce Bardin
1999-11-23  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-23  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-29  0:00                       ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-01  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01  0:00                       ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-02  0:00                         ` Mats Weber
1999-12-03  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03  0:00                             ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-04  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03  0:00                             ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-06  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22  0:00                   ` Mats Weber [this message]
1999-11-22  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-23  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01  0:00                       ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-01  0:00                         ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-22  0:00                   ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-23  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-20  0:00                   ` Mats Weber
1999-11-19  0:00                 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-22  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22  0:00                     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-18  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-18  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-18  0:00   ` Riyaz Mansoor
1999-11-19  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
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