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From: "Raymond C. Rawa" <Raymond.C.Rawa@nospam.boeing.com>
Subject: Re: Attempting to modify a function result
Date: 1999/07/23
Date: 1999-07-23T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37985A3A.4304@nospam.boeing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37976A87.87BD141D@magic.fr

Pascal MALAISE wrote:
> 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.

This is exactly my point.  I thought that the record returned by the
function would be a constant and therefore the compiler wouldn't let me
make an assignment to it.  At the very least, a runtime error would have
been nice.

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Raymond C. Rawa




  reply	other threads:[~1999-07-23  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-22  0:00 Attempting to modify a function result Raymond C. Rawa
1999-07-22  0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE
1999-07-23  0:00   ` Raymond C. Rawa [this message]
1999-07-22  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-07-22  0:00   ` Keith Thompson
1999-07-23  0:00     ` John Herro
1999-07-26  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-27  0:00     ` Ehud Lamm
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