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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
Date: 16 Jan 2003 11:13:38 -0500
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"Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> writes:

> > Which is easily solved by saying:
> >      Lower : constant Integer := Read;
> >      Upper : constant Integer := Read;
> >      subtype S is Integer range Lower..Upper;
> > 
> > (Fortunately, declarations *are* elaborated in order :-)
> 
> which, by RM 3.3.1(7), is the same as
> 
>        Lower, Upper: constant Integer := Read;

Which is an excellent example of why declaring multiple initialized
variables in one statement is a horrible thing to do. I'd have to
check the manual to see if Read is called once or twice for this;
please never do it!

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-- Stephe