From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,71daebeb6145ebb6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Stream venting (long) Date: 1998/12/31 Message-ID: <76geul$3al$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 427497840 References: <768sng$6r9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <769g3r$moq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <76aor7$l4q$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <76baib$4ne$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <76de7d$opb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <76dh6m$r63$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <76doir$1ek$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <76etuo$uel$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <368B6D96.D728F0B7@erols.com> <76g9ql$uvs$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Dec 31 18:14:46 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1998-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <76g9ql$uvs$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dewar@gnat.com wrote: > In article <368B6D96.D728F0B7@erols.com>, > LeakyStain wrote: > > That way, you don't have to worry about unlocking on > > exceptions. I suspect Ted Dennison still won't be happy. > > I am not sure what would make Ted happy here, he seems to > expect some kind of impossible magic :-) > Magic would be nice. I tried poking voodoo pins in a collaboration diagram, but it didn't help. :-) But as Fredrick Brooks pointed out, *we* are the magicians. As the title says, I was mostly venting. I had some hope there was some "magical" solution I was missing. Failing that, at least some acceptable solution. It seems I have to settle for acceptable. For the new year, I'll resolve to try to be happy about it. :-) -- T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own