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From: Egil <egilhovik@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Hiding the value of Constants
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On Jul 11, 11:53=A0pm, a...@anon.org (anon) wrote:
> In the years, there has been a few people asking how to hide values or co=
nstant.
> Some say use private which the value is still known. Others say use funct=
ions
> which can be hidden by removing the source code of the body of the packag=
e,
> but requires a call runtime routine each time the value is needed.
>
> But the main problem is that each person who wants to hide a constant for=
gets
> is that all someone has to do is to write a simple program to print the v=
alue. =A0
> So, except to may be getting bonus points from a prof, its a waste of tim=
e.
>
> In my example I just showed a third way. To initialize the value at the
> Elaboration time instead of compile or using main runtime.
>
>


Then how about showing an example that is not dependent on the
elaboration order?
ie, a program that does not use an unitialized value for your
Test_Value if a user decides to depend on it for another constant
defined in another package (that happens to be elaborated before the
body of your Y1).