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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Elaboration of nested generic package.
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:54:31 -0700
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Randy Brukardt wrote:

>
> ... the generic body is always elaborated at the point of the instantiation
> ...

which turned out to be a clever trick, under Ada 83, for ensuring that
a package would be elaborated exactly when you needed it to be. We
would create generic packages with no parameters, with them, and
then instantiate them in any declaration part of a program, even in
a declare block.  Of course, this does raise an efficiency issue, but
it also solve an elaborartion issue.

Richard Riehle