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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Protected Object: little question
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"John English" <je@brighton.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Bruno Hergott wrote:
> >
> > My question is:
> > If i want to implement an action wich does only read access to the
> > protected data and wich can
> > be called by 2 tasks at the same time, i must write a function.
> > But i may not need the return value of this function. Because what
> > i want is not really a function.
>
> I'd like to know how this can ever be necessary. The function can
> only read the PO's private data, so if you aren't altering it and
> you aren't interested in its value, what are you trying to do with
> it?

could he be passing the (current) contents of the PO on to the 'outside'
world?..