Re: Local vs global variables in ADA

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Wes Groleau wrote:
>> The only real global variables in Ada are those declared in the 
>> visible part of package specifications. These are a no-no.
> 
> 
> Generally a bad idea.  However, it's worth noting that
> a large number of very smart people saw no reason to
> make them illegal when the language was being designed.

True. But since at the Ada launch on 1980 Dec 10, some of those people 
said that the language contained "goto" primarily to facilitate 
automated translation from languages such as FORTRAN 66, and "while" 
primarily to facilitate such translation from languages such as Pascal, 
we should not construe that everything allowed by the language is 
necessarily a Good Idea for new software.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Monsieur Arthur King, who has the brain of a duck, you know."
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