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From: nospam@thanks.com.au (Don Harrison)
Subject: Re: Can't export object of private type
Date: 1999/03/03
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Matthew Heaney wrote:

[..]

Agree with the following..

:This is how you implement a "once function" in Ada.  The difference is
:that you don't need to put anything on the heap, which is how Ada was
:designed.
:
:This is one of the reasons why there's no compelling reason to have a
:garbage collector in Ada.
:
:All four goals are thus satisfied.


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Don (Harrison).   donh at syd.csa.com.au