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From: dontwantspam@abc.com (Jan)
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Subject: Re: parameter modes
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 15:10:35 GMT
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On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 14:03:56 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>freely used on both sides of an assignment. No specification is made on 
>whether IN OUT uses by-reference or value-return (by-copy in each 
>direction); it is perfectly valid for an implementation to copy the 
>value to a local (stack) location, use that copy internally, and then 
>copy the last value back to the original variable on return from the 
>procedure.

This is what I wanted to hear, thanks.

Jan

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