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: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.albasani.net!news.redatomik.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: different task schedules Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:06:31 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <790e2ec3-e14b-423a-9943-00525f37e7f1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: MajGvm9MbNtGBKE7r8NgYA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47448 Date: 2017-07-18T18:06:31+02:00 List-Id: On 2017-07-18 17:28, Shark8 wrote: > On Tuesday, July 18, 2017 at 1:14:24 AM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> On 18/07/2017 02:09, Randy Brukardt wrote: >> >>> I agree. And more importantly, what it is supposed to do that can't be done >>> with the pragmas noted above. >> >> Co-routines, I suppose. >> >>> And most important of all -- what problem >>> needs to be solved. >> >> A co-routine with task interface lacking task overhead. > > Is that really a problem though? Control flow inversion problem: replacing data-driven state machine mess with natural, readable, maintainable, safe: fetch (blocking), process, repeat. P.S. For real-life applications see data-driven implementations of protocols in Simple Components. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de