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=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
X-Google-Thread: 103376,51359402da60c472
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-02 12:42:06 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail
From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: DYNAMIC ADA TASK CREATION?
Date: 02 Jul 2003 20:41:05 +0100
Organization: Pushface
Sender: simon@smaug.pushface.org
Message-ID: <x7vvfukiuni.fsf@smaug.pushface.org>
References: <bcnrkj$m16$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl>
 <x7vadcgwiyo.fsf@smaug.pushface.org> <3EF0026E.2050309@attbi.com>
 <bcqdof$dov$1@nemesis.news.tpi.pl> <3EF0F57D.9060507@attbi.com>
 <x7vr85q8xgw.fsf@smaug.pushface.org> <3EF15A7C.4030901@attbi.com>
 <1ec946d1.0306271654.636c1373@posting.google.com>
 <3EFD42B5.2060707@attbi.com> <0gpvfv49qaa0b62ab5m0kg39kka66sis8t@4ax.com>
 <1ec946d1.0306300701.77505dcf@posting.google.com>
 <4a4de33a.0307020405.776c4486@posting.google.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1057174925 19172 62.49.19.209 (2 Jul 2003 19:42:05
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:42:05 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39990
Date: 2003-07-02T20:41:05+01:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

maa@liacc.up.pt (M�rio Amado Alves) writes:

> "Why not:
>    type Element (<>) is limited private;" (Dmitri)
> 
> "Because the type must be definite, of course! Otherwise, how would
> you know how much space to allocate for the object?" (Matthew)
> 
> With the amazing 'Size attribute, of course!

Am I missing something? I thought the point of indefinite types was
that different objects of the type might have different sizes?