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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:59:53 +0200
From: Jean-Marc Bourguet <jbourguet@free.fr>
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Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> Your level 0 is clearly a faulty design.

For a general purpose library in Ada, I agree.   But people are often
surprised
that using reference counts, copy on write data structure, sharing
special
values, ... leads to this result.  There are some non threadsafe
versions of
the C++ STL which are at this level.

> FYI, the word you should be using is "safe".

Thanks.

-- Jean-Marc