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From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: [Q] Returning Strings From A Function
Date: 1997/04/06
Date: 1997-04-06T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <334786ba.2003114@news.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.860256392@merv


dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>John Herro said, talking of the question about dealing with a variable
>length string value returned
>
><<Does anyone have other solutions?
>>>
>
>Most certainly! The normal solutoin is just to declare a local variable
>and initialize it with the returned value:
>
>   x : string := f(x);
>
>That's straightforward. If you want to use pointers, then you can use
>
>   type x is access all string;
                     ^^^ In Ada83? I don't think so!

<..snip..>

Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>




  reply	other threads:[~1997-04-06  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-04-04  0:00 [Q] Returning Strings From A Function John McCabe
1997-04-04  0:00 ` Joakim Olsson
1997-04-05  0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-04-05  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-06  0:00     ` John McCabe
1997-04-06  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1997-04-06  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-06  0:00         ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-07  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-08  0:00             ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-07  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1997-04-05  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-05  0:00 ` johnherro
1997-04-05  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-06  0:00     ` John McCabe [this message]
1997-04-06  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05  0:00   ` Mark & Zurima McKinney
1997-04-07  0:00     ` johnherro
1997-04-07  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07  0:00     ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-07  0:00       ` johnherro
1997-04-08  0:00     ` Jeff Carter
1997-04-09  0:00     ` Looking for an Ada SCIENTIFIC UNITS checking package Ron House
1997-04-06  0:00 ` [Q] Returning Strings From A Function John McCabe
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