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From: johnherro@aol.com (John Herro)
Subject: Re: Ada 95 Compatibility
Date: 1996/02/24
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I wrote:
>> In Ada 95, a package spec. that doesn't *need*
>> a corresponding body can't *have* one.

Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com> replied:
> See RM95-7.2:4.

     Thanks to everyone who replied to my initial question.  Ken's RM
reference provides the best and simplest solution, to add pragma
Elaborate_Body as follows:

package P is
   pragma Elaborate_Body;
   Buffer : array(1 .. 50) of Integer;
end P;

package body P is
begin
   -- code to initialize Buffer
end P;

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