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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Package with initialization only
Date: 1999/07/21
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Date: 1999-07-21T00:00:00+00:00
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Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> writes:

> A small "aesthetic" problem: I have a package with initialization only;
> thus I must add a dummy procedure to resolve the with/without body
> ambiguity Ada95 doesn't accept.

If you put "pragma Elaborate_Body;" at the beginning of the package
spec, then you're allowed to have a body.  In fact, *required* to have a
body.

In Ada 83, some people preferred a dummy incomplete type, instead of a
dummy procedure.

- Bob
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