Re: Initialising stuff

["chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>]

"Jeffrey Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
news:3BCCF006.B3A57E6F@acm.org...
> "chris.danx" wrote:
> >
> > It's private and global inside the screens package, outside it can't be
> > accessed.  The operations such as put, gotoxy etc manipulate the
variable,
> > and to ensure proper working it requires initialisation.
>
> That's not global, that's package state data.

Ok, my jargon isn't great but now I know, I'll call it that.

> Whether you initialize it
> where it's declared, or provide default initial values for all the
> components of a record, or put a bunch of elaborate initialization code
> in the package body, it's initialized during elaboration of the package.

Not much difference other than convienance then? <rh>  I'll just default
initial values for record components, it's simpler(in the sense that it
doesn't have an explicit initialisation block in the package).


Chris