From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: package body functionality
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:34:52 GMT
Date: 2001-05-29T20:34:52+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MJTQ6.4332$rn5.225402@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u66ekm0m5.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov
In article <u66ekm0m5.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen Leake says...
>
>f97stdi@dd.chalmers.se (Staffan Dittmer) writes:
>
>> package body B is
>> variable: some_type;
>> begin
>> variable:=call_some_function_outside_B;
>> end B;
>>
>> I know that in B the variable will be assigned
>> every time a program using the package is run,
>
>This is seriously wrong! B.variable is _not_ set many times. It
>would be interesting to understand how you got that impression.
He said every time the *program* is run, which is quite correct. I'll admit the
possiblity that he meant something else (although I'm having trouble mentally
concoting a reasonable alternative), but that's not what he wrote.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-29 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-26 14:28 package body functionality Staffan Dittmer
2001-05-26 17:09 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-26 17:22 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-05-26 18:31 ` DuckE
2001-05-26 19:16 ` Aron Felix Gurski
2001-05-27 13:50 ` Ken Garlington
2001-05-29 9:15 ` Philip Anderson
2001-05-29 13:26 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-29 19:11 ` Stephen Leake
2001-05-29 20:34 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-05-29 21:29 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-30 13:46 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-30 14:25 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-31 19:08 ` Wes Groleau
2001-05-30 14:23 ` Stephen Leake
2001-05-31 1:37 ` Robert A Duff
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