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From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: Attempting to modify a function result
Date: 1999/07/26
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Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> 
> "Raymond C. Rawa" wrote:
> 
> > I've encountered a "feature" of Ada83 or the VADS compiler that I don't
> > understand.
> 
>    It is a feature of Ada, not just VADS.

Huh?  This is definitely a VADS bug.  Unless the function is returning
an access value, you can't use it on the left-hand-side of an
assignment.  If it returns an access value, then Display.A is
equivalent to Display.all.A, and again the value returned by the
function call is not being changed, but rather the record it
points at.
 
>                                         Robert I. Eachus
> 
> with Standard_Disclaimer;

Presumably the Standard_Disclaimer covers this "typo"? ;-)

-Tuck
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