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From: Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
Subject: Re: Attempting to modify a function result
Date: 1999/07/22
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"Raymond C. Rawa" wrote:
>       Display_Type is record
>          a : integer;
>          b : float;
>       end record;
You mean "type Display_Type" :-)

 
>          Display.a := 5; -- I mean't to type: The_Display.a := 5;
> The procedure Foo.Huh compiles and executes without error.  As a side
> note, The_Display is unchanged by this procedure.

Well, you call the function Display which returns a object of type
Display_Type,
you change the field "a" of this object to 5.
After this instruction the returned object does not exist any longer.

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