Re: Why constant components are not permitted ?

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Le 25/11/2011 11:06, AdaMagica a �crit :
> Useful applications for constant components could be (this is what you
> can have in C++):
> 
> record  -- *not* Ada
>   Name: constant String   := "James Bond";
>   Id  : constant Positive := 007;  -- e.g employee number of a company
>   other variable components
> end record;
> 
> In Ada, you hide the components (private record), define a constructor
> function providing the values for the constant items and provide only
> read operations for them.

But why on earth do you want a field in a record with the same value for
all objects of this type?

This looks like an application wide constant, so just declare the
constant value outside of the record.

Pascal.

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