Re: Ada style of passing 'in' parameters considered dangerous?

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)]

gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier):

> See my other reply. IIRC, the worst were cases where procedure P
> calls Q, Q calls R and R modifies an IN parameter because it references
> also a [IN] OUT, then even the IN parameter of P is also modified after
> the call to Q. Add loops and so on... :-}

Sorry, I recalled wrong: the IN parameter cannot be passed as
a variable, since it is considered as a constant!
The security problem remains on one level (unless I'm missing
a combination, maybe with a pointed object where the pointer is IN ?)
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