Re: Tasks, Entries, and Variables of a Class-wide type

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:

> In the above the solution of an Access_String would be unsuitable if
> the parser-task was running on a separate machine [or, more
> specifically/correctly, a separate address-space... FireWire networks
> can have a memory map which allows devices to access one other's
> memories].

Ada tasks require a shared address space.

I once implemented Ada tasking across multiple machines
(Ada 83), but it was a subset of Ada -- some restrictions
are required.  That was before the Distributed Systems
Annex (which does not use tasks) was invented.

- Bob