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>
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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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