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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,abaec53fd41aec4e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!203.109.252.33.MISMATCH!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!news.xtra.co.nz!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Lurker" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <20051103214759.6d049f90@localhost> Subject: Re: I don't know what the compiler wants to tell me X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Message-ID: <2AFaf.707$xD6.38899@news.xtra.co.nz> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:14:09 +1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.88.162.208 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1131095422 219.88.162.208 (Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:10:22 NZDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:10:22 NZDT Organization: Xtra Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6176 Date: 2005-11-04T22:14:09+13:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey R. Carter" wrote in message news:M4Caf.5446$Rl1.4529@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net... > > while Irq = False -- infinite loop until an external task does > > This (Irq = False) generally indicates a lack of understanding of Booleans. Very true, I've even seen some constructs like this: If x = true then y = true else y = false end [Not an Ada code of course]