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From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Re: Icon Co-Expressions in Ada
Date: 1998/12/17
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Ehud Lamm wrote:

> For this to work from arbitrary procedures, the language provides the
> suspend statement, which is like return but after which the procedure may
> be resumed.(you can have a procedure say suspend 4; suspend 5; for
> example).
> 
> I was thinking about implimenting this statement. Note that you ahve to
> remember exactly where the computation stopped.

This sounds like coroutines in other languages. The closest Ada has to
offer is tasks, but as Ada tasks can be called concurrently, you will
have a significant overhead over a simple coroutine mechanism.