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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Elaboration order handling (Was: Bug in 'gnatmake')
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:37:49 -0400
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Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> On 19.06.13 14:38, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
>> Oh, and the fact that the whole model is overly restrictive.
>> For example, it makes perfect sense to say:
>>
>>      package Symbols is
>>          type Symbol is private;
>>          function Intern(S: String) return Symbol;
>>          Empty_Symbol: constant Symbol := Intern(""); -- Wrong!
>>
>> But that doesn't work in Ada.  It works fine in my hobby
>> language.  ;-)
>
> Does your hobby language allow separate compilation?

Yes.

But I don't see how the compilation model ("separate compilation") is
relevant to questions about the elaboration model, which is a run-time
issue.

- Bob