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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
> The pkg is a very important concept in Ada, and your insistence that there has
> to be a Get_Instance function shows that you don't fully understand it yet.
> Until you do, you won't really understand Ada.

Is there a good place to read about this?  I had the impression that
package initialization runs unconditionally.  EGarrulo was asking how to
get it to run only in response to a runtime request that might never
happen.