Re: 4 beginner's questions on the PL Ada

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Adam Beneschan" <adambeneschan@aol.com> wrote in message 
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On Friday, August 9, 2013 9:50:53 AM UTC-7, Emanuel Berg wrote:
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>> 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.
>
>No, not really.  One thing to keep in mind is that Ada has task *types*, so 
>that
>you can declare a task type and then start any number of tasks of that 
>type.
> And the tasks don't have to be associated with variables; you can start an
>array of tasks:

This is true, but Ada has a better solution for the original problem -- use 
the task identifier (which can be displayed, it has an Image function). 
Every task has a task id. See 
http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-C-7-1.html.

                                    Randy.