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Subject: Re: Why can't objects be static in Ada?
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Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> I can't believe, in 40 years, nobody has come up against this issue before.

Dependence on static properties has been an Ada issue before, IIRC. A
result is present in the phrase “must statically match“. I don’t know
whether or not this suggests that compilers will elaborate at compile time.