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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: D.10
Date: 1999/04/13
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In article <wccogks5yhv.fsf@world.std.com>,
  Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> because we're *implementing*
> protected objects.  Suspension objects are a lower-level
> primitive.

Implementing well defined Ada primitives in terms of lower
level ill-defined primitives is certainly possible. Indeed
unfortunately, in the GNAT world, and I expect in most
other Ada implementation worlds, it is, unfortunately, a
way of life!

But that is no excuse to make the ill-defined lower level
primitives user visible :-)

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