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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: 4 beginner's questions on the PL Ada
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Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> 4. How do you exit Ada altogether? For example, if there are 3 tasks,
> and one solves the problem, how can I terminate the whole application
> at once? (Rather than sending messages to all the tasks, "OK, we're
> done looking!")

One way is to abort the environment task[1], but as the reference says
"This approach to task termination is not recommended because it does
not allow tasks to terminate in a known state." If that's not a problem,
though ...

[1] http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Program_termination#Ada