Re: Newbie: Task parametering

[tmoran@acm.org]

> type Task_Data is
>        record
>        Name : aliased String(1..8);
 and
>   type Data_Handle is access Task_Data; -- used to point to its data
Things of type Data_Handle point to heap-allocated objects (it says
"is access" not "is access all"), so you don't need any "aliased".

>     Data_For_Task := new Task_Data;
>     Data_For_Task.Name := "Task A  ";
>     Data_For_Task.Period := 0.5;
>     Data_For_Task.Repetitions := 5;
  Data_For_Task := new Task_Data("Task A  ", 0.5, 5);
or, more explicitly
  Data_For_Task := new Task_Data(
    (Name => "Task A  ", Period => 0.5, Repetitions => 5);
Besides being shorter, these have the advantage over multiple assignment
statements that the compiler will tell you if you left something out.