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Subject: Accepts in subprograms
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Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 17:11:00 EDT
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Does anyone know why ACCEPT statements cannot be in subprograms
within a task body (LRM 9.5(8))? I think it used to be in Ada80.

A colleague had a big FSM in a task and wanted to accept the
next input from various places, so he tried to write a procedure
GET_NEXT_ENTRY with the obvious results. He has a more conventional
reader/writers task structure now, but I still couldn't answer
"But, why not?"

Rob Spray
Electrospace Systems
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