Re: Protected Object: little question

[Dale Stanbrough <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au>]

Bruno Hergott wrote:

> If i want to implement an action wich does only read access to the protected 
> data and wich
> can
> be called by 2 tasks at the same time, i must write a function.
> But i may not need the return value of this function. Because what i want is 
> not really a
> function.
> What i want is "the thing in a protected object to do only read access to the 
> protected
> data
> and wich can be called by 2 tasks at the same time".
> And so i must for example call this action like this:
> My_Boolean_Return_Value_I_Dont_Want := 
> My_Protected_Object.MyProtectedFunction(..);
> It seems to strange to be true...

What do you want it to do with the value you have read? I'm not sure
why you want to "read" a value, but not do anything with the value
you have read.

Your choices are...

   access parameters to the function
   a procedure.


Dale