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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Reprise: 'in out' parameters for functions
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"Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote in message
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> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:
>
> > Ada has a wart. Let's admit it, and move on.
>
> Can't we fix that one without breaking backwards compatibility?  Or
> are politics involved?

Sure. But there is no will. So it won't be fixed. (See AI-323, voted "No
Action").

             Randy.