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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Tasks, Entries, and Variables of a Class-wide type
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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 21:56:03 +0100
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On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:08:37 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> One may, however, pass data indirectly, and return a pointer
> or other designating value.

Yes, but it does not look natural with non-limited types. It is strange
that you cannot return, say, String from an entry point.

BTW, shared objects might be prohibitive for certain architectures, e.g.
when tasks run on different processors, which do not share memory. You
would really like to marshal all rendezvous parameters.

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