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From: Barry Kelly <dynagen@eircom.net>
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In article <9qi2c8$gpb$1@nh.pace.co.uk>
	"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
wrote:

> If you wish to keep the realtime/embedded crowd happy, you need to have
> task-safe versions.

C++ can implement task safety using the RAII (resource aquisition is
initialization) idiom, which eliminates the need for creating a whole
new type for task-safe access to structures.

Why can't Ada do this?

-- Barry