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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:30:13 -0500
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Subject: Re: in-out and out parameters
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Evangelista Sami wrote:
> I thought that, as I and J were passed by references

In Ada, out parameters may be passed using copy-in/copy-out
rather than by reference in certain circumstances.