From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8002154d2966e1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-04 05:28:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.us.prserv.net!prserv.net!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Local vs global variables in ADA References: <5Ldx9.3695$151.38236@weber.videotron.net> <3DC5D1B7.1060707@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 08:27:35 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1036416495 151.168.133.155 (Mon, 04 Nov 2002 07:28:15 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 07:28:15 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30338 Date: 2002-11-04T08:27:35-05:00 List-Id: > The only real global variables in Ada are those declared in the visible > part of package specifications. These are a no-no. Generally a bad idea. However, it's worth noting that a large number of very smart people saw no reason to make them illegal when the language was being designed.