Re: Why can't objects be static in Ada?

[Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>]

On Tuesday, 16 April 2019 02:40:45 UTC+1, Randy Brukardt  wrote:

> I view this as self-inflicted, because there's no little value to pragma 
> Preelaborate. As I previously noted, compilers will almost always generate 

Nope, I didn't implement it, someone else did.

> the best possible elaboration code whether or not that pragma is applied. 
> And regardless of C.4, not all preelaborated code can be done before load 
> time, so it isn't providing a benefit in forcing that sort of code, either.
> 
> It's one of the ideas where Ada tried to accomplish something, but didn't 
> quite succeed. Pure is like that as well, but at least it provides some 
> benefits for Annex E code. Preelaborate doesn't even do that.

If it didn't succeed, why is it still part of the language? This is the typical attitude of the ARG refusing to deprecate old stuff.

 
Luke.