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From: mcc@entropy.cs.princeton.edu (Martin C. Carlisle)
Subject: Re: Package with initialization only
Date: 1999/07/21
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Organization: US Air Force Academy, Dept of Computer Science
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Date: 1999-07-21T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <37961DD6.E56BD3E9@maths.unine.ch>,
Gautier  <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> wrote:
>A small "aesthetic" problem: I have a package with initialization only;
>thus I must add a dummy procedure to resolve the with/without body
>ambiguity Ada95 doesn't accept. There is surely a more elegant formulation,
>surely with OO, since the initialization procedure affects the public
>variable of the package. Its present state:

You can also use "pragma Elaborate_Body;", as in:

package test_elab is
   pragma Elaborate_Body;
   
   x : integer;
end test_elab;

--Martin

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