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From: Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/11/22
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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.