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Subject: Why can't objects be static in Ada?
From: Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>
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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.