Re: Tasks, Entries, and Variables of a Class-wide type

[Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

On 11/1/10 8:23 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:50:44 -0700, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>
>> On 11/01/2010 08:30 AM, Shark8 wrote:
>>>
>>> Crap; you're right!
>>> While I certainly like the idea of having a task-construct within the
>>> language itself, I'm still quite new to using them in-practice.
>>> Thanks for pointing that out.
>>
>> Interestingly, your original problem does not exist if you use composition
>> rather than type extension.
>
> No, the original problem is that an object of unconstrained type cannot be
> returned from an entry point. That is independent on whether the constraint
> is the type tag, discriminant without a default, or array bounds.
>

One may, however, pass data indirectly, and return a pointer
or other designating value.

(Or have the task trigger the actions to be performed on
the new object without passing it around; instead, pass
the actions.)