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,fc232b1f37897ed0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: D.10 Date: 1999/04/13 Message-ID: <7evbm6$oto$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 465842103 References: <7eu6ud$8lc$1@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x13.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Apr 13 12:01:13 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Matthew Heaney wrote: > The RM is ambiguous. It doesn't say specifically that > the suspension object can be shared this way (ie that > Suspend_Until_True is atomic wrt other calls to > Suspend_Until_True), but it doesn't say it can't be. I must say I don't see any ambiguity in the RM here, but I have trouble with your question because the terminology is vague ("A is atomic wrt B" does not have a clear meaning in this context). > I would like to know the specific intent of the language > designers, and whether or not the algorithm in B&W is in > fact legal. You are using legal again in some peculiar sense (in Ada it means that something satisfies static semantic and syntax requirements). I think you will get a clearer answer to your question if you produce a small example, and ask a question about it at the proper level of semantic description. If I write X, then is Y true, where Y is stated in terms with which we are familiar, preferably those in the RM! -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own