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Wojtek Narczynski wrote:
> What would happen if a procedure could return a value like a function,
> or a function could accept an out parameter?

I don't know Ada well enough to answer this myself,
so I'll ask here - can you make a generic function
with generic parameters which correspond to the out
parameters that you would like to pass into the
function, and have the function write to those? If
so, is that an acceptable workaround?