Re: package body functionality

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> In article <u66ekm0m5.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen Leake says...
> >
> >f97stdi@dd.chalmers.se (Staffan Dittmer) writes:
> >
> >> package body B is
> >>  variable: some_type;
> >> begin
> >>  variable:=call_some_function_outside_B;
> >> end B;
> >> 
> >> I know that in B the variable will be assigned
> >> every time a program using the package is run,
> >
> >This is seriously wrong! B.variable is _not_ set many times. It
> >would be interesting to understand how you got that impression.
> 
> He said every time the *program* is run, which is quite correct. I'll admit the
> possiblity that he meant something else (although I'm having trouble mentally
> concoting a reasonable alternative), but that's not what he wrote.

Hmm, I guess I read "subprogram from the package", rather than
"program using the package". Sorry!

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