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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b27f494a96e0530 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A community Windows binding References: <2004100600261150073%david@bottoncom> <2smd6iF1mo0mcU1@uni-berlin.de> <4168EA68.6D6A2B39@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:54:59 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1097772898 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:54:58 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:54:58 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5208 Date: 2004-10-14T12:54:59-04:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > CBFalconer writes: >>Dispatching has to do with selecting a >>process (or thread) to execute. > > That is one use of the term "dispatching". In this context, however, > we mean an object-oriented dispatching call, based on the type tag. > All within one thread. Ok, ignore my prior post ;-) I though you were speaking of a large case statement. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg