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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: asynchronous task communication
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On 01/08/2013 02:14 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
> Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
>
>> To my mind, that is Cursor behaving similarly. Just as the index 3 is
>> no longer the index of the item in question, so the Cursor should not
>> be relied on.
>
> In AdaCore's implementation, yes. But another implementation might
> validly raise PE. To my mind, that'd be preferable.

Whether it gives you a different component, or raises an exception, it can't be 
relied on.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Whatever it is, I'm against it."
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