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Subject: Re: 4 beginner's questions on the PL Ada
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On Friday, August 9, 2013 11:29:31 AM UTC-7, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> On 08/09/2013 09:50 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
>=20
> > 3. Is it possible to get the task *name* (from the code) into a
> > string, programatically? That way, a generic procedure could be
> > used to communicate from tasks, with Put_Line, and without having
> > to hard code the task name every time.
>=20
> It's possible to get a name using Ada.Tags.Expanded_Name.

Unless he's declaring a tagged task type (which is possible only by derivin=
g it from an interface), there's nothing you can pass as a parameter to Exp=
anded_Name.  If he's declaring a standalone task object (with an anonymous =
type), then I don't think there's a way to do this even if the task is deri=
ved from an interface.

                                 -- Adam