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From: Albrecht =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=E4fer?= <albrecht_kaefer@yahoo.de>
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Subject: Re: Hiding the value of Constants
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:03:58 +0200
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anon schrieb:
> In the years, there has been a few people asking how to hide values or constant.
> Some say use private which the value is still known. Others say use functions
> which can be hidden by removing the source code of the body of the package,
> but requires a call runtime routine each time the value is needed.

Not necessarily. There's something called "optimizer" for things like these.

> But the main problem is that each person who wants to hide a constant forgets
> is that all someone has to do is to write a simple program to print the value.

Er ... what?

> In my example I just showed a third way. To initialize the value at the
> Elaboration time instead of compile or using main runtime.

But you do know why constants are called constants, right? How exactly
was your example declaring a constant?


Albrecht