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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Advice on abort
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:14:00 +0100
Date: 2005-11-09T18:13:54+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1t79xxk57a1mo$.1d6326wooi94y.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 437203c7$0$158$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk

On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:12:18 +0100, Poul-Erik Andreasen wrote:

> The ACT-feature i made deliberately for dealing with posibbly blocking
> situations,

It meant to deal with blocking operations as those defined by Ada standard.
Socket I/O is not covered by the language it is outside.

> and to avoiding a language-feature, on the basis of 
> potentiel bad implementation, is to mee a wierd way of thinking.

Let me put it so. Among all possible variants, abort and ACT have the
highest probability that something might get wrong. Here I don't mean buggy
compilers, I do legal ones.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-09 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-04 15:25 Advice on abort REH
2005-11-04 17:15 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-11-04 18:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-04 18:35   ` REH
2005-11-05 18:33   ` Simon Wright
2005-11-05 21:23     ` REH
2005-11-06 11:17       ` Simon Wright
2005-11-06 13:58         ` REH
2005-11-06 20:08           ` Simon Wright
2005-11-06 20:41             ` REH
2005-11-07 14:55 ` Poul-Erik Andreasen
2005-11-07 17:09   ` REH
2005-11-07 18:03     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-08 14:54       ` Poul-Erik Andreasen
2005-11-08 16:14         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-08 16:42           ` Marc A. Criley
2005-11-08 16:59           ` Poul-Erik Andreasen
2005-11-08 20:05             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-09 14:12               ` Poul-Erik Andreasen
2005-11-09 17:14                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2005-11-08 16:32         ` Marc A. Criley
2005-11-08 14:35     ` Poul-Erik Andreasen
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