Re: Return by reference

["Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>]

In article <38203d4a_1@news1.prserv.net> , "Matthew Heaney" 
<matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:

> In article <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911021905050.1386-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>
> , Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>  wrote:
>
>> I was going to use the "Rosen trick" to modify data in the Fmt each time
>> "&" is called. Unfortunately, that requires making the full view of
>> Format_Type limited and you run into the problem I described.
>>
>> Is there a cleaner way to implement that interface?
>
> 1) Privately implement the type as tagged, to make it a by-reference
> type.

I should have said, "implement the type as *nonlimited* tagged..."



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