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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: passing messages between the tasks
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:42:55 -0700
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On 10/14/2014 12:43 PM, Shark8 wrote:
> 
> Yes, but you can have two-entries: one returning the length and the second
> returning the data, so you could do something like:
> 
> Function Get_String( X : The_Task ) return String is
>   Length : Natural;
> begin
>   X.Get_Length( Length );
>   Return Result : String(1..Length) do
>     X.Get_Data( Result );
>   end return;
> end;


Or do the Get_Line route, with 2 out parameters. At least familiar, if not great.

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Jeff Carter
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