Re: 4 beginner's questions on the PL Ada

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 18:50:53 +0200, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
declaimed the following:

>1. How do you make a constant in Ada? Can I make one that is
>computed, for example an integer, set to Milliseconds(something)?
>
http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/12rm/html/RM-3-3-1.html

>2. How do you get options from the CL? I.e., how do you do the C
>argv in Ada?

http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/12rm/html/RM-A-15.html

>
>3. Is it possible to get the task *name* (from the code) into a
>string, programatically? That way, a generic procedure could be
>used to communicate from tasks, with Put_Line, and without having
>to hard code the task name every time.

	What do you consider a task name? Since you can declare task /types/,
and then create instances of the type are you asking for the /type/ name
(which would be the same for all instances) or the "variable" name -- which
may vary depending upon where in the code one is (if a task instance is
somehow passed to a procedure is it supposed to display the name by which
it was instantiated, or the name by which it is being accessed in the
procedure).

http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/12rm/html/RM-C-7-1.html

>
>4. How do you exit Ada altogether? For example, if there are 3
>tasks, and one solves the problem, how can I terminate the whole
>application at once? (Rather than sending messages to all the
>tasks, "OK, we're done looking!")
>

http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/12rm/html/RM-9-8.html


	IOWs, it is all there in the reference manual.
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