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From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Q re static deferred constants
Date: 1997/07/17
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Tom Moran (tmoran@bix.com) wrote:

: Given:
: package p is 
:   type T is new Integer;
:   x : constant T;
: private
:   x : constant T := 1;

: Is p.x static?  ie, can another package use p.x for a 'when' in a case
: statement?

If the full definition of X is not visible, then X is not static.
So inside the package body for P, and those of its children, X is static, 
but outside these places is not.

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