Ada version of C's 'static'

[Craig Allen <cpallen@my-deja.com>]

I've written some code in a procedure that operates on a table of
constants.  The table is used only by that procedure.  Right now, I have
that table defined locally to that procedure.  I believe the table is
regenerated every time the procedure is called.

In C, I'd declare this table static in that function.  This would give
me static duration and block scope for that function.

I don't want to define this table at 'package scope', as only 1
procedure uses this table (and the values would be removed from the
code that uses them).  I would prefer not to build the table at
elaboration time, because I'd like the definition to be close to the
code that's using it, not at the bottom of the package.

In short, this is exactly what I want, except in Ada.

void foo(void)
{
   static const int bar[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
   ...
}

Or is there a 'more Ada' way of doing this?

Thanks for any help.
-Craig




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