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From: Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>
Subject: Why can't objects be static in Ada?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 05:40:38 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2019-04-11T05:40:38-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b411a770-5e86-4d5e-9e43-e52843be724d@googlegroups.com> (raw)

Someone sent in a pull request to my bindings and had to change a few constants to functions because objects can't be static. For an example:

   type Sizes is
      record
         Width  : Dimension;
         Height : Dimension;
      end record with
     Convention => C;

   Zero_Size : constant Sizes := (others => Natural_Dimension'First);

Why can't Zero_Size be compiled as static in this pre-elaborated package?

This seems to be a major flaw in Ada imo.

Luke.

             reply	other threads:[~2019-04-11 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-11 12:40 Lucretia [this message]
2019-04-11 12:56 ` Why can't objects be static in Ada? Mark Lorenzen
2019-04-11 13:31   ` Lucretia
2019-04-11 22:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-12  1:56   ` Lucretia
2019-04-12  7:33     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-04-12 22:38     ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-13  9:14       ` Lucretia
2019-04-12  6:59   ` Mark Lorenzen
2019-04-12  8:12     ` Simon Wright
2019-04-12 22:02     ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-13 13:07 ` Jere
2019-04-13 13:48   ` Lucretia
2019-04-15 17:46     ` G. B.
2019-04-14  3:47 ` Keith Thompson
2019-04-16  0:08 ` sbelmont700
2019-04-16  1:40   ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-16 12:11     ` Mark Lorenzen
2019-04-16 16:19       ` Simon Wright
2019-04-16 20:56       ` Lucretia
2019-04-16 21:07         ` Niklas Holsti
2019-04-16 21:16           ` Lucretia
2019-04-16 21:40             ` Niklas Holsti
2019-04-16 23:26             ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-23 14:30           ` Mark Lorenzen
2019-04-16 23:09       ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-22 20:05       ` Norman Worth
2019-04-16 20:54     ` Lucretia
2019-04-16 23:15       ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-16 20:53   ` Lucretia
2019-04-18 13:32 ` sbelmont700
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