Re: Question on using protected objects

["Jeff Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com>]

"DuckE" <nospam_steved94@home.com> wrote in message
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> "Jeffrey Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
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> > What does your compiler say? (Hint: I suggest using GNAT with the -gnaty
> > option.)
>
> The compiler is perfectly happy with this.  It even "appears" to do
exactly
> what I want.  If I were programming in C, that's as far as I would go
before
> using this construct.  In Ada I try to avoid the "try it and see if it
> works" mode of operation since it sometimes leads to unpredictable
results.


That is the strangest statement I ever heard. To summarize ... If you were
using
a language where the compiler checks less at compile time and is less able
to
tell you at run time about problems you are ?MORE? inclined to stop after a
clean
compile and a run that appears to work?