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From: dale <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Constructors/Destructors in Ada95
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Robert A Duff wrote:

> You can use "(<>)" as the discriminant part to prevent default
> initialization.  Then initialize the thing with a function call.
> (But as you or somebody pointed out, this unfortunately does not
> work for limited types.)


I think it also looks very ugly, and is certainly non intuitive.
For a language that is based on the maxim of "maximum readability"
i think it fails badly here.


Dale