Re: Ada style of passing 'in' parameters considered dangerous?

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Antti Sykari wrote:
> 
> - Is this generally considered a dangerous thing in Ada (or in
>   general)?

It is dangerous in any language that allows subprograms to change the 
value of its actual parameters to pass the same variable to more than 
one parameter of a subprogram. There is nothing unique about Ada in this 
regard.

> 
> - Have you encountered a non-trivial real-life case where the
>   programmer has shot himself in the foot in the form of
>   implementation-defined behavior because of the error mentioned above?
>   I'd be interested to hear of any such cases.

No.

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Jeff Carter
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