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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: confusion about message passing between the tasks
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 16:26:42 -0700 (PDT), compguy45@gmail.com declaimed the
following:

> Can anyone tell me why i am getting zero printed to the screen even though i am passing 5?
> 17      
> 18 task body Counter_Task is
> 19         V : Integer := 0;
> 20     begin
> 21         loop
> 22             select
> 23                 accept Get (Value : out Integer) do
> 24                     put("Value of parametar passed in is ");put(Value); 
>                        --Why am i getting zero printed???

	Maybe because you declared it to be an OUTPUT; nothing is passed in
(I'm surprised that Ada didn't complain about "used before assignment")

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