Re: Elaboration worries

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
news:wcck67aumqe.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
...
> >    (a) make your package Preelaborate if possible (Pure is so limited
that
> > no real packages ever qualify) -- but this is usually impossible because
I/O
> > and Calendar aren't Preelaborate. Which means that you can't trace or
log a
> > Preelaborate package (well, there *is* one way to do it, but it adds
runtime
> > overhead);
>
> I have put debug output code in Pure and Preelab packages by "cheating".

True, you can leave the language if you like, or lie to the compiler (I
guess you'd say what you are doing is the latter; I would call it the
former), but I was thinking of ways that don't require such underhandedness
and can be used in production code.

                           Randy.