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From: dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov)
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Subject: Re: How to avoid unreferenced objects (mutexes etc)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:18:22 GMT
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:41:58 -0500, "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
wrote:

>> So I chose the lesser evil = mutexes with all that nasty problems of
>> error recovery, you have pointed. I really do not like it.
>
>The language gives you primitives so that you can use to build in the
>safety.  There is no problem using semaphores in Ada95, if you follow
>certain idioms.

There is no harm in gotos if you know where you go. (:-))

I believe that like in case of gotos, use of semaphores should be
minimized [if possible, of course].

Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov