Re: deferred constants

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Matt Borchers <mattborchers@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it possible to define a constant in a package body that has it's
> initialization deferred to elaboration?

No. It must be a variable.

> For example...
>
> with Gnat.RegExp;
> package body
>     pat : constant Gnat.RegExp.RegExp;
> begin
>     pat := Gnat.RegExp.compile( "..." );
> end;

What's wrong with this:

with Gnat.RegExp;
package body
    pat : constant Gnat.RegExp.RegExp := Gnat.RegExp.compile( "..." );
end;


-- 
-- Stephe