From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a4cc6fdc99d3fe2a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-29 06:27:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!feed-out.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!feed.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9eoeiv$h8$1@eol.dd.chalmers.se> Subject: Re: package body functionality Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:26:42 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:26:42 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7837 Date: 2001-05-29T13:26:42+00:00 List-Id: In article <9eoeiv$h8$1@eol.dd.chalmers.se>, Staffan Dittmer says... > >package body A is > variable: some_type:=call_some_function_outside_A; >end A; .. >but is this also true for A, or will the variable in >this case only be assigned at compile time ? Oddly enough, we had a very long discussion here a few months back about what it would take for a compiler to be able to call a user-specified function at compile time. If you're interested in that topic, you may want to try to look it up at http://groups.google.com . I doubt we will recover all the better points here again. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com