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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80e74153f40106ab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-08 19:01:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Weird controlled behavior - Gnat 3.15p NT References: <5d6fdb61.0309040725.3403aa29@posting.google.com> <3F57B071.5030206@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <3F57B071.5030206@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 02:01:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.176.54 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1063072917 162.84.176.54 (Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:01:57 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:01:57 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42301 Date: 2003-09-09T02:01:57+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > there are a number of situations where even a limited object > may be finalized several times It's important to point this out to new Ada programmers who are coming from C++, since this is a major difference in the languages. In C++, an object's constructor and destructor are called exactly once, so an object never needs to keep track internally if it has been initialized or finalized.