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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Default expression only allowed for "in" parameters - why?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:59:04 +0100
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> Yes, I was saying what you think I was saying.  The possibility of using
> a default variable did not occur to me.  In fact this idea still seems
> bizarre to me, although I can certainly think of cases where some out
> parameters are "don't cares" to the caller.

absolutely, just _please_ comment these occasions as such for
the poor maintenance sap how follows... :-)