Re: Initialising stuff

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

"chris.danx" wrote:
> 
> It's private and global inside the screens package, outside it can't be
> accessed.  The operations such as put, gotoxy etc manipulate the variable,
> and to ensure proper working it requires initialisation.

That's not global, that's package state data. Whether you initialize it
where it's declared, or provide default initial values for all the
components of a record, or put a bunch of elaborate initialization code
in the package body, it's initialized during elaboration of the package.

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