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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: newbie question...
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On 3 Jul 2005 10:58:49 -0700, e.coli wrote:

> what is the difference?:
> 
> accept foo;
> ...
> code

The code is executed after the rendezvous with the task that has called
foo, i.e. asynchronously to that task.

> accept foo do
> ...
> same code above
> ...
> end foo;

The code will be executed during the rendezvous, synchronously to the task
that calls foo. The caller's task is blocked between its call to foo and
"end foo;". After "end foo;" both tasks continue their work independently
on each other.

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