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BUSINESS SYSTEMS
System Development Division
November 15. 1977
To: Distribution
From: Dick Sweet
Subject: Mesa Language Working Group minutes
The Language Working Group met on 11 November, 1977. The items considered were
inline procedures and monitors.
Inline Procedures
It was decided that while the design from the previous meeting about calling inline or out of
line was ok, it was a lot of new syntax. The desire to call an INLINE procedure out of line can
be largely met by declaring another procedure whose entire body is an inline call of the first
one. The current proposal is to implement INLINE procedure that are callable only in an open
coded fashion. It was also noted that inline procedures allow for some approximation of
default parameters.
Monitors
XEtax SDD ARCHIVES
Recall the items from last week I have read and understood
Pages _________ To _________
1. Independent FORK
2. Retu rn type of a FORK
Reviewer
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Date
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3. Questions of scope
4. Initial ization of Monitors and condition variables
5. Monitor priority
6. Condition timeout
7. Aborts
8. Interaction with SIGNALS
Item 3. Scope
Scope, has become a discussion of the way in which the actual lock of a monitor is
specified. The following syntax was chosen:
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The basic style, with lock implicitly supplied:
M: MONITOR [