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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.fn3LatRFkm9/xzEj7F2/NQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why can't objects be static in Ada? Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:33:03 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <322de0e0-9b7c-478f-be70-4d0f88c74d6d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fn3LatRFkm9/xzEj7F2/NQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56119 Date: 2019-04-12T09:33:03+02:00 List-Id: On 2019-04-12 03:56, Lucretia wrote: > Wrong, if something can be compiled to be static so that there's no elaboration code, then that's a good thing, why execute anything at runtime if there's no need. Seems you are stuck in backward land where everything should be initialised with code, get a grip and drag your arse into the 21st century! There is a difference between can and must. Elaboration is a low-level implementation concept. The actual language flaw is that there is no way for the programmer to force operations compile-time, plus there is no user-defined constructors. The language tries to work magic where there should be trivial programmer's work. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de