From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2c4ffb461d487342 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Parameter return when exceptions occur References: <4181fbd4$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <2Iihd.692$O11.571@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 04:11:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.9.197 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1099282302 63.184.9.197 (Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:11:42 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:11:42 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5944 Date: 2004-11-01T04:11:42+00:00 List-Id: Steve wrote: > It would be nice if Text_Io.Get_Line would work this way and return a > count and string when an end error exception occurs. I think it > actually works with some compilers. Neither of these are pass-by-reference parameters. Last is a pass-by-copy parameter, and Item is a pass-however-the-compiler-chooses parameter. -- Jeff Carter "We use a large, vibrating egg." Annie Hall 44