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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
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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