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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Self-referential types
Date: 1999/10/18
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In article <38079D6F.4F7C00FA@mitre.org>,
  "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org> wrote:
>   But this is the wrong way to do that in Ada. There are two
similar
> cases and several structurally different ways to organize
them.  First
> if there is no shared local data common to all of the
subprograms, or if
> tasking is not an issue, you can put the local data in a
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ah ha! There it is. The trouble is that the creator may not
think tasking is an issue, but later on a consumer is interested
in task safety. PLEASE PLEASE default your thinking to assume
that tasking *is* an issue, and make thinks task safe by
default. Only introduce (well documented!) thread non-safety
deliberately if there is a VERY good reason for it.

package body.
> The package exports the subprograms, and the driver just
contains a few
> calls and perhaps some logic:


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