Re: 4 beginner's questions on the PL Ada

[Anh Vo <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com>]

On Friday, August 9, 2013 3:16:34 PM UTC-7, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
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> > This may not be a concern for your present needs, though
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> > unnecessary non-portability usually bites you sooner or later in
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> > real projects.
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> Yes, I agree.
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> > An advantage of the technique used in PragmARC.Reflection is
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> > that it is part of the core language, and so implemented by all
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> > compilers, and the resulting string is defined by the language,
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> > and so is the same for all compilers.
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> That sounds great. Unless it requires lots of code, why don't you
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> just show me how it is done? It is much easier understanding that
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> way.

You can give/assign a name to a task the way you like by using predefined package Ada.Task_Attributes. In this case you most likely instantiate it with String subtype. Therefore, it is will be completely portable.

Anh Vo