From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,XPRIO autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,be6cbf679aee02c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!hwmnpeer01.lga!hwmedia!hw-filter.lga!fe10.lga.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Heimlich Manure" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Why was it done this way ? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: <%DV7f.13378$rE2.2085@fe10.lga> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:00:29 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.192.120.72 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cv.net X-Trace: fe10.lga 1130374779 68.192.120.72 (Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:59:39 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:59:39 MST Organization: Optimum Online Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5972 Date: 2005-10-26T21:00:29-04:00 List-Id: Hello respectable group, This may be a silly question but I'm sure there was reasoning behind allowing such : with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; procedure My_Example is task type T1; task type T2; task body T1 is begin Put_Line("Instantiating T2 from T1"); declare T_2_2 : T2; begin null; end; end T1; task body T2 is begin Put_Line("Instantiating T1 from T2"); declare T_1_1 : T1; begin null; end; end T2; T_1 : T2; begin null; end My_Example; Question is, why is this legit ?