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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,b1208117d36fb121 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-22 09:25:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: System.Address'Size - not a static integer expression? Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:11:53 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <665e587a.0203060957.3682edf7@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0204121220.606ecc36@posting.google.com> <3CB74D37.973A4C19@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204141201.1ffab2d8@posting.google.com> <3CBAEE01.D17C2DB0@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204161911.687f3144@posting.google.com> <3CBDBE76.F4FF3905@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204190606.4855f886@posting.google.com> <3CC03241.883A6E33@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204192111.1914353d@posting.google.com> <7vlmbgks2a.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <5ee5b646.0204220534.54f73954@posting.google.com> <7v8z7fltkz.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 1019492568 13787 195.25.228.57 (22 Apr 2002 16:22:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:22:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22920 Date: 2002-04-22T18:11:53+02:00 List-Id: "Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen" a �crit dans le message news: > Yes, certainly this must have been the original meaning. How they came > to re-use the keyword for 'not externally visible' I don't know. > Presumabely to save the burden of a new key-word. Since a global variable is already "static" (in C sense), saying static again would have not changed anything, so they reused the key-word to mean something else. Sigh.... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr