Re: Out parameters in a function

[john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe)]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:49:04 GMT, john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John
McCabe) wrote:

>On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:29:10 +0200, "Nazgul"
><darkelf@aim.homelinux.com> wrote:
>
>You could use a procedure, or you could use a function that returns a
>record containing a boolean and the character you want.
>
>As far as I can remember, a way of getting round the no-side-effects
>feature of functions is to pass it a pointer then update the contents
>of the pointed to location.

"pointers"! access types I mean :-)

>>function ReadChar(f: File; c: access character) return boolean;

>>the compiler gives an error when i do something like

>>c:=anything;

Missed this bit but, as David says:

c.all := anything;