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Dmitry A.Kazakov wrote:
> Then the language shall require them to be either initialized or 
> *explicitly* specified as uninitialized:

It already does:

    O : Some_Type;             -- explicitly uninitialized
    O : Some_Type := Default;  -- explicitly initialized

It's fairly obvious which is which, and there is no third option
that I know of.

> procedure Foo (X : out Integer := 23);

That's obviously explicitly initialized.

> function Foo returns Integer := 23;

You're saying that instead raising program_error for failing to hit
a return statement we should look to a default result on the spec?

No, thank you.