Re: Ada tasking question

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> 
> The exception handler allows us to notice when one of the tasks dies.
> But can we (re)start it somehow?  Or will we have to put an exception
> handler inside the processing loop, and that way keep the task
> running?

Ada's exception-handling syntax does not directly provide for restarting 
or repeating the code that raised the exception. However, Ada does 
provide the building blocks to achieve that: You put a block statement 
with an exception handler inside a loop.

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