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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!enother.net!enother.net!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx05.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Shark8 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/35.0a1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: passing messages between the tasks References: <41154c4b-6158-4701-ab25-85afa3b24ed2@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <41154c4b-6158-4701-ab25-85afa3b24ed2@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:43:51 UTC Organization: TeraNews.com Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:43:43 -0600 X-Received-Bytes: 1371 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1632522816 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:22472 Date: 2014-10-14T13:43:43-06:00 List-Id: On 10/13/2014 7:49 PM, Adam Beneschan wrote: > For a String, the problems with using a String as an OUT parameter > are the same as for procedures--you can't really return a variable- > length string this way. Yes, but you can have two-entries: one returning the length and the second returning the data, so you could do something like: Function Get_String( X : The_Task ) return String is Length : Natural; begin X.Get_Length( Length ); Return Result : String(1..Length) do X.Get_Data( Result ); end return; end;