Re: Generic Formal Parameter for a Task Type

["Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com>]

"James Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:3AA80A68.A2C8B042@worldnet.att.net...
> I have looked through "Ada as a Second Language" and the Ada Reference
> manual. I cannot find any proper form to pass a task type as a
> generic formal parameter.
>
> Is there a generic formal parameter form for this purpose?
>
> I wanted to create a generic package I call Task_Governor. This
> package would control the number of tasks one could create at once.
> The idea is that task resources may be limited. This package would
> allow someone to limit the number of tasks to a maximum specified.
> An instantiation of the package would monitor the tasks it started
> and allow another to be started when one of the tasks terminated.
>
> My problem is that I cannot figure out how to specify a task type
> as a generic formal parameter.

There is no generic formal task type; you have to use a limited private
formal.

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