From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,5a88548f1bcf3510 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.224.186.20 with SMTP id cq20mr6668819qab.8.1353250408876; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:53:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.116.193 with SMTP id jy1mr1926577qeb.2.1353250408858; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:53:28 -0800 (PST) Path: gf5ni327qab.0!nntp.google.com!u2no10051753qal.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:53:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=91.7.76.157; posting-account=rmHyLAoAAADSQmMWJF0a_815Fdd96RDf NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.7.76.157 References: <97a6946f-a707-4dd3-872b-9e851fcf9462@googlegroups.com> <62ba75d8-8a6c-4d75-be37-3322f683714d@googlegroups.com> <8998c0eb-c9b1-4501-9163-94172aa4aea0@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <5533c59b-24a1-41ae-8a7c-674e3cdcbecc@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Overring function and its returned type From: AdaMagica Injection-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:53:28 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-11-18T06:53:28-08:00 List-Id: On Saturday, November 17, 2012 8:11:23 PM UTC+1, Robert A Duff wrote: > "Yannick Duch=EAne (Hibou57)" writes: > > Le Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:27:37 +0100, Maciej Sobczak > > a =E9crit: > >> An interesting property of Ada, and what makes this issue more > >> difficult than in C++ is that Ada supports out parameters, which from > >> the language design point of view should work like return values. > > But it is not the same as a returned value. > But it should be. How can this be? The actual of an out-parameter exists already, whereas the= return object is newly created.