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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Generics & Elaboration Order
Date: 2000/05/09
Date: 2000-05-09T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f9404$1j4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8F2E930FAandrewloguecdcgycom@142.77.1.194

In article <8F2E930FAandrewloguecdcgycom@142.77.1.194>,
  nospam.andrew.logue@cdcgy.com (Andrew Logue) wrote:
> i.e. does the code in package body execute before the generic
> is instantiated?

No, certainly not

Generally the linear elaboration semantics of Ada mean that
an expression is evaluated when you come to it. There are
very few exceptions to this rule (default expressions in
specs are one case, generic templates are the other).


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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-08  0:00 Generics & Elaboration Order Andrew Logue
2000-05-09  0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-05-18  0:00   ` ANTHONY GAIR
2000-05-18  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-19  0:00       ` ANTHONY GAIR
2000-05-21  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-09  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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