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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada advocacy
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:47:45 -0400
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> writes:

> The ARM-83 used the called task's place in its execution, as I recall:
> if the called task was at an accept for the called entry, or at a select
> with an open alternative for the called entry, then the rendezvous took
> place; otherwise, the calling task took the else part. ARM-95 changed
> that to whether the call was queued: if the call was queued at any
> point, the call is canceled and the caller takes the else part;
> otherwise the caller remains in the select part.

That's not really a change.  If you stick to Ada 83 features, you
get the same behavior.  The reason for the new wording is for
requeue (which is a handy feature).

- Bob