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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:59:12 -0500
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>> If you develop code from scratch, you probably don't want -gnatE.
>> GNAT will impose some fairly minor restrictions on you,
>> and in return you get a statically determined elaboration
>> order that will work, and you don't have to mess around
>> with the various elaboration control pragmas.  And you
>> can avoid the run-time overhead of elaboration checks on
>> every call.

tmoran@acm.org writes:

>    Does that mean the designers of Ada's elaboration got it wrong?

Yes.

- Bob