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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.42.119.82 with SMTP id a18mr3584735icr.19.1406193787631; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:23:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.98.139 with SMTP id o11mr14417qge.17.1406193787557; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:23:07 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!h18no3795494igc.0!news-out.google.com!j6ni12934qas.0!nntp.google.com!v10no2222488qac.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:23:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=91.55.236.94; posting-account=rmHyLAoAAADSQmMWJF0a_815Fdd96RDf NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.55.236.94 References: <50bdb713-7ce1-411b-810b-9bdee1d26b7a@googlegroups.com> <7581b098-ea30-4b34-a51e-2f0dd5a57563@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <00aae9b5-42e8-40e8-a2dd-7e56ecd2bca3@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Timeouts in Ada From: AdaMagica Injection-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:23:07 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21175 Date: 2014-07-24T02:23:07-07:00 List-Id: 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.