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From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Timeouts in Ada
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:23:07 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2014-07-24T02:23:07-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00aae9b5-42e8-40e8-a2dd-7e56ecd2bca3@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wcciomn3dng.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>

   select
     call_1(params)
   or
     call_2(params)
   or
     delay 10
   end select

The model in Ada is a set of counters (or cash points in a supermarket), an every day experience: You (as a person) can only queue before one of them. That's why it is not allowed in the syntax.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-24  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-17  5:18 Timeouts in Ada NiGHTS
2014-07-17  7:08 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-17  8:35   ` NiGHTS
2014-07-21 23:34   ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-22  1:11     ` Shark8
2014-07-22  7:39       ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-22  8:31         ` Simon Wright
2014-07-22 21:52       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-17  7:38 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-17  8:40   ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 10:00     ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-17 19:27   ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 19:51     ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-17 20:52       ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 20:29     ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-17 20:52       ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-21 23:44         ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-17 20:43     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-21 23:37   ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-17  7:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-17  8:59   ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17  9:48     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-17 17:10       ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 20:45         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-17 16:12 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-17 16:46   ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 17:11     ` Simon Wright
2014-07-17 17:58       ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 19:02         ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 18:58       ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 18:12     ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-17 19:27       ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 18:56     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-23 22:37     ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-24  9:23       ` AdaMagica [this message]
2014-07-24 15:37         ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-25  5:16           ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-25  9:11           ` AdaMagica
2014-07-25 16:15             ` Brad Moore
2014-07-25 16:34             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-17 19:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
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