Re: Ada-Singleton-Why does it work like this?

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Patrick,

> package Singleton is
> 
> 	type Singleton_Type (<>) is tagged limited private;

This declares an unconstrained type. It means that an initialization is
needed when declaring object of type Singleton_Type. This is a bit like
the String type, you cannot say:

   S : String;

But, this is valid:

   S : String := "toto";

Pascal.

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