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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:17:05 +0100
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On 10.03.11 12:12, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:35:23 +0100, Thomas L�cke wrote:
> 
>> It is good to hear Ludovic, but a system that has been in existence for
>> 20+ years are not likely to be using _a lot_ of Ada 2005 features, yes?
> 
> Ada 2005 was not that big step forward.

> Less usable features:
> 
> 1. The return statement. You could live without it.

I find return ... do handy when initializing task objects, or
objects "owned" by a task, since the task becomes active only
after the statements of the extended return have executed.

(Got this pattern from one of the important subordinate clauses
of which Barnes's book has plenty :-)