Re: something I would like to see in ADA 2005

Tony Gair wrote:
>>How would tasks help?  Task types are no more generic than protected
>>types.  If you want genericity, you have to wrap it in a package.
> 
> 
> Maybe I can use a generic package, but I would like to declare a
> protected type the same way I declare a package or a task.

   You can. I suspect you are only using "single protected" declarations 
in your code... but nothing prevents you from writing:

   protected type Resource (I : in Positive) is
      ...
   end Resource;

   And then you can declare objects of type "Resource" even with a 
discriminant to customize them. Is that what you meant by genericity?

> I disagree with the statement that tasks are no more generic than
> PO's.

   I do not.

> For instance try declaring a generic protected object.

   Try declaring a generic task if you can  ;)

Rodrigo