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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e44790cdcea9da82 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!193.252.118.146.MISMATCH!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Sender: obry@PASCAL Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem with -gnatt References: From: Pascal Obry Date: 20 Oct 2004 11:19:34 +0200 Message-ID: Organization: Home - http://www.obry.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: AVelizy-151-2-6-92.w82-120.abo.wanadoo.fr X-Trace: 1098263978 news.wanadoo.fr 3997 82.120.26.92:3969 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5505 Date: 2004-10-20T11:19:34+02:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake writes: > > Note that protected operations should only execute "for a short time." > > I wish Robert Dewar were here. I suspect he would say something like > "Rubbish!". Well I don't know what Robert would say, but for sure you can't use IO inside a protected object routine. > "a short time" is not definable in any meaningful _standard_ way. It > is _totally_ up to the user to decide what that means. Ok. > If your application can afford to wait an hour for a protected object, > then an hour is "a short time". An hour without a single IO ? So "for a short time" is certainly something (even if not formal) we have to keep in mind. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595