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From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: Pointer function parameter
Date: 2000/10/17
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Mary:

> How can you handle address-of-operator (&) in Ada.
> 
> ie.
> 
> float calculation(float &num2, float num1)

Good news: you can do everything with in/in out/out
parameters, almost no need of 'address or 'access.
"Bad" news: if you are trying to affect num2 (are you ?),
you can't do it in a function: a bug-prone side-effect. Do it as:

procedure calculation( num1: float; num2: in out float; result: out float ) is...

HTH
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