Re: Assigning the value of a deferred constant?

[Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:04:43 GMT, Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
wrote:

>Sure. Declare it as a function instead of a constant.

From my previous message:

>I know I could have different bodies for different architectures, or
>just substitute a function for the deferrent constant, doing instead:
>
>  function Default_Byte_Order returns Byte_Order;
>  pragma Inline(Default_Byte_Order);

so I'd dare to say I had thought of that solution.

I'm not discussing whether what I try to do is elegant, efficient or
good from a software engineering point of view. I'm just asking if it
is posible or not in Ada. I seem to remember that Barnes' book
"Programming in Ada 95" discussed at some point the posibility of
having a constant view of a private variable, but I cannot find it
anymore, so I must be misremembering.

Still, it is posible?

Thanks,
                                                       /L/e/k/t/u