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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: dynamic multithreading
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> It's much much cleaner to just let the task die and start from scratch.
  It's hard to get much simpler than:
  task body t is
    -- don't declare stuff here
  begin
    loop
      declare
        --declare it here instead
      begin
        accept do_something(what_to_do);
        -- code
      exception
        when others =>
          -- handle any unhandled exceptions,
          -- or this can just be "null;"
      end;
      -- everthing about the last run is forgotten, start fresh
    end loop;
  end t;

> you simply don't trust your run-time system to even de-allocate the stack)
  e.g. aborting a thread (TerminateThread) on MS Windows