From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d6f7b92fd11ab291 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-22 04:53:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Crosspost: Help wanted from comp.compilers Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:53:13 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3F1D25A9.9010707@noplace.com> References: <3F158832.1040206@attbi.com> <1058378673.35463@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1058390613.119827@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <2OERa.4718$0F4.3216@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <1058539398.178565@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F18D647.9020505@attbi.com> <3F1B207B.6090308@attbi.com> <1058800464.63505@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F1C48F6.8010700@attbi.com> <3b1Ta.14846$0F4.12183@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <3F1CC567.5000407@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.bf.ee Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 22 Jul 2003 11:53:18 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40626 Date: 2003-07-22T11:53:18+00:00 List-Id: In my experience, almost none. And now that we have initialization available through Ada.Finalization, there is even less excuse. I suppose it is nice to have it so that packages look "orthogonal" with respect to procedures and functions, but in practice, if it didn't exist, I think we'd get along fine. MDC Robert I. Eachus wrote: > program, not in the sequence of statements of a package body. (In fact, > I wonder how many package bodies even have a sequence of statements...) > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================