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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Elaboration in GNAT
Date: 4 Jan 2002 16:43:22 -0800
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"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message news:<u3bh1tiuppk9c7@corp.supernews.com>...
> The one time you cannot use a categorization pragma (say, 
> Elaborate_Body) is
> when a package withs its own children, which means a 
> client will have to use
> pragma Elaborate_All (if it needs to call operations in 
> that package during
> its own elaboration).

I find the above incomprehensible. The normal case in which
you cannot use Elaborate_Body is when you have mutually
dependent packages, a common situation. It is simply
horrible to prohibit this common and perfectly reasonable
situation (the alternative is being forced to aggregate
packages which can perfectly well be separate).