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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Visibility and Elaboration
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> >    "we elaborate declarations and execute statements", Barnes,
> ...
> But some declarations occur in declare blocks, or in the declarative
> part of a task or in one of several other areas where elaboration csn
> occur well after the main program starts executing.
  I remain confused.  That sentence sounds like elaboration after the main
program starts, is at least mildly unusual.  But my understanding is that
  procedure p(n:in positive) is
    x : array(1 .. n) of integer;
causes the "elaboration" of "x" each time "p" is called, ie, executing
a program is typically a constant back and forth between elaborating
declarations and executing statements.