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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Elaboration order handling (Was: Bug in 'gnatmake')
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:57:35 -0400
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Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> Having had to live with products of programmers favoring symbolic
> cleverness, I naturally think of what happens when some project
> depend on lexicographical order and then someone wishes to give
> packages different names. ARGH!

Of course programmers shouldn't do that (depend on lexicographical
order).  But as I said before, that's already possible with GNAT -- it
uses lexicographical order.  I doubt if anyone depends on that on
purpose, but it's easy to do so by accident.

And with standard Ada, it's even worse: the order can change for any
reason, or for no reason.  The implementation is allowed to roll dice
to determine the order!  Even running the exact same program without
recompiling could change order!

- Bob