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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: [Spark] Using defered constants
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:18:10 +0000 (UTC)
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The following error does not make much sense for me. Any workaround?

$ cat example.lst
Line
   1  
   2  package t is
   3     type x is private;
   4     cx : constant x;
   5     procedure copy(o : out x; i : Integer);
   6     --# derives o from i;
   7  private
   8     --# hide t;
   9     type x is new Integer;
  10     cx : constant x := 0;
  11  end t;
  12  
  13  package body t is
  14     procedure doupdate(o : in out x; i : Integer)
  15       --# derives o from i, o;
  16       is
  17        --# hide doupdate;
  18     begin
  19        o := o + x(i);
  20     end doupdate;
  21     
  22     procedure copy(o : out x; i : Integer) is
  23     begin
  24        o := cx;
                 ^3
*** (  3)  Semantic Error:611: Illegal use of deferred constant prior to its 
           full declaration.

  25        doupdate(o, i);
  26     end copy;
  27  end t;