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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: 4 beginner's questions on the PL Ada
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:29:31 -0700
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On 08/09/2013 09:50 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
>
> 3. Is it possible to get the task *name* (from the code) into a
> string, programatically? That way, a generic procedure could be
> used to communicate from tasks, with Put_Line, and without having
> to hard code the task name every time.

It's possible to get a name using Ada.Tags.Expanded_Name. The question is what 
name you get for instances of a task type. GNAT gives the type name regardless 
of what kind of object the task is (simple object, array component, ...).

For an example of using Expanded_Name to obtain this name, see 
PragmARC.Reflection. The PragmAda Reusable Components are available from

http://pragmada.x10hosting.com/pragmarc.htm

-- 
Jeff Carter
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