From: Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Return by reference
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:29:55 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2017-12-18T17:29:55-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15a736cf-a981-4905-8f1a-837441cd60fe@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p19fne$jr1$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk>
On Monday, December 18, 2017 at 5:33:20 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Jere" wrote in message
> ...
> > I was wondering if Ada could take a step with it further
> > and provide a syntax for return by reference.
>
> No. It doesn't semantically make sense as a stand-alone concept. We tried a
> whole bunch of ideas on that line before giving up and adopting the implicit
> dereference mechanism.
>
> Randy.
And I think it was a good choice. I was just seeing if there was a way that
the language could further increase the safety of the mechanism by fully
hiding the access type and making it more integrated into the language. It's
a fairly young feature of the language, so I was just seeing if that was
plausible.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-17 14:38 Return by reference Jere
2017-12-17 14:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-18 0:51 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-18 8:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-18 10:47 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-18 12:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-18 22:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-18 22:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-19 1:29 ` Jere [this message]
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