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Subject: Re: Constant record components
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"ME" <abcdefg@nonodock.net> wrote in message
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> What was the rationale behind prohibiting constant record components?

Well, I'd be tempted to say that they're not "prohibited"; they were never
allowed nor do they naturally appear in the syntax.

But that would be wrong, because very early versions of the language (before
it was called Ada) did indeed have such things. I don't know anything about
them or why they were dropped, as that all happened before I got involved
with Ada.

I can say that the notion that something declared "constant" could in fact
be assigned to in some scope is rather disgusting. I don't think it would
fly.

                          Randy.