Re: Workqueues in Ada

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@acm.nospam.org>]

Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> What about it, Jeff?  Do you plan to update your components to be Ada
> 2005 compatible?

Once we have multiple compilers available, I will probably look into 
that. Some of the functionality is now duplicated in the standard 
library, and I may revise the data structure components to be more like 
Ada.Containers, and base the unbounded structures on 
Ada.Containers.Doubly_Linked_List.

> Note that in Ada 95, the above "return" has some rather strange
> behavior in some cases.  Still, the fact that it was legal Ada, and is
> now illegal, is rather annoying.

Indeed.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"C's solution to this [variable-sized array parameters] has real
problems, and people who are complaining about safety definitely
have a point."
Dennis Ritchie
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