Re: Parameter Modes, In In Out and Out

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> In article <3A6140CB.63EE9B8F@acm.org>,
>   Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote:
> > However, in the area of passing an access-to-subprogram value
> > to a subprogram, there is no way to get around the rules.
> > This is an unfortunate deviation from the basic philosophy.
> 
> "the basic philsophy"
> 
> The word "the" here is mischosen. The Ada design follows a
> set of guidelines (basic philosophical principles if you
> really want to get that grandiose), and what you refer to
> is just one of them.

This is true. I used "the" to mean the principal mentioned above, not to
imply that this is the only guideline used in the revision process.
Also, this guideline is apparent to application developers, while ease
of migration for Ada-83 vendors is not.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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