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From: tony_gair@yahoo.co.uk (Tony Gair)
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Subject: Re: something I would like to see in ADA 2005
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> 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.

I disagree with the statement that tasks are no more generic than
PO's.
For instance try declaring a generic protected object.