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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Task discriminants
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 12:43:52 +0000 (UTC)
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"Phil Slater" <phil.slater@amsjv.com> wrote in message
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> This prompts the question, "are tasks on an array elaborated in order from
> low-index to high-index? So is Martin's code below guaranteed to make each
> task's discriminant the same as its index on the array? I looked in RM95
but
> couldn't locate order of elaboration of array elements.
>
> If so, it's potentially useful for setting up an array of tasks that
passes
> data up and down the array by each rendezvousing with its neighbours.
> (Obviously the start value of Id and the index range of the array have to
be
> consistent.)
>
> But if the order of elaboration isn't guaranteed, we're back to the old
> "roll-call" initialisation rendezvous again.

Difinately one for the language lawyers but _in_the_real_world_ I've yet to
come across a compiler that did anything other than the 'sensible' thing.

Randy are there? :-)