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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada 95 Compatibility
Date: 1996/02/24
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Date: 1996-02-24T00:00:00+00:00
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John Herro said

"     Thanks to everyone who replied to my initial question.  Ken's RM
reference provides the best and simplest solution, to add pragma
Elaborate_Body as follows:

package P is
   pragma Elaborate_Body;
   Buffer : array(1 .. 50) of Integer;
end P;

package body P is
begin
   -- code to initialize Buffer
end P;

Yes, that's certainly fine in Ada 95. If you want to stay Ada 83
compatible, then a method which works in both 83 and 95 is

package P is
   Buffer ...
private
   type Requires_Body;
end P;

then in the body you give a dummy completion for the incomplete type.