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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: I am not understanding user defined exceptions
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:56:18 -0600
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@TheWorld.com> wrote in message 
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> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>
>> Most likely:
>>
>>      X : Integer := ...; -- Static constant
>>      X : constant Integer := ...; -- Non-static constant
>>      X : variable Integer := ...; -- Variable.
>>
>> Since the default should be the safest thing.
>
> Well, at least we agree on one thing.  It's odd that Ada got it right
> for parameters ('in' is the default), but got it wrong for object
> declarations (variable is the default).
>
> I'd be happy with:
>
>     X : Integer := ...; -- constant
>     X : var Integer := ...; -- variable
>
> - Bob