From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!enother.net!enother.net!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: confusion about message passing between the tasks Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:44:38 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 07:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="214e2226c9a2cb4f71713357be0d6925"; logging-data="29887"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/2qDa8vANndsM0VTr621r0" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:j1Lamye/IrdNATF64y/iLUfAhqc= Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:190112 Date: 2014-10-27T08:44:38+01:00 List-Id: Le 26/10/2014 21:31, Robert A Duff a écrit : > Robert A Duff writes: > >> OK, then I'll make a stronger claim: Everything you can do with >> rendezvous you can do with (something like) protected objects, >> and do it just as cleanly, and sometimes even better. > > ...but the other way around isn't true. Here's Tucker's example that > convinced me that some sort of "pragma Passive(Buffer_Task);" wasn't > going to cut it. Write a PO a that is in one of two states, > "accepting calls to Entry_1" and "accepting calls to Entry_2", > never in both states at the same time, and never in neither state > (as observed by callers). Pretty easy. With rendezvous, not so > much. > > - Bob > Huh? type states is (state1, state2); Current_State : States; ... loop select when Current_State = State1 => accept RDV1 do... end RDV1; when Current_State = State2 => accept RDV2 do ... end RDV2; end select; end loop; -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr