Re: "C - like: THIS" pointer to a task type inside a task function

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Jan 24, 4:42 pm, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:

> A better idea (in my opinion) is to set things up so that the client
> will *call* an entry, rather than accept an entry, when it's ready to
> wait for the request to be completed.  It can't be an entry in the
> server, though, since there's no construct in Ada to "accept" an entry
> just from one specific task.  In Ada 83, I would have had the server
> create a new, small "helper" task for this purpose; the server would
> create a new task when the request is initiated, and later it would
> tell that task when the request can be completed, and the client would
> wait on that task.  Now, protected types can be used for a similar
> purpose....

OK, I didn't realize it at the time, but this is pretty much the same
thing Dmitry suggested.  Just to give credit where it's due...

                      -- Adam