From: kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)
Subject: Re: if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop)
Date: 1 Mar 90 18:29:38 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5659@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6553@hydra.gatech.EDU
In article <6553@hydra.gatech.EDU> tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor) writes:
>In article <5638@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> kassover@control.crd.ge.com (David Kassover) writes:
>>complex subprogram execution is called for. What can screw you
>>up here is a "SIDE EFFECT", which Ada flatly refuses to allow.
>
It should be obvious by now that what I was referring to as a
SIDE EFFECT was the changing of the values of parameters of
functions, that is, a PARAMETER that gets changed incidentally to
the generation of the return value. This is how I have always
understood the term to be meant, as mentioned in K&R and K&P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1990-03-01 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1990-02-20 16:13 Reasons for dropping Ada Ted Holden
1990-02-20 21:04 ` Richard S D'Ippolito
1990-02-20 23:03 ` Reasons for keeping Ada David Kassover
1990-02-21 0:40 ` Clement Pellerin
1990-02-21 19:02 ` Reasons for dropping Ada Loren Louis Hart
1990-02-22 16:07 ` Mike Coffin
1990-02-22 17:01 ` if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop) Dennis M. O'Connor
1990-02-22 21:51 ` Barry Margolin
1990-02-23 19:34 ` Loren Louis Hart
1990-02-25 19:58 ` David Kassover
1990-02-26 12:45 ` John F Nixon
1990-02-26 18:28 ` David Kassover
1990-02-26 20:55 ` John F Nixon
1990-02-26 22:00 ` David Kassover
1990-02-27 18:55 ` Jeremy Epstein
1990-02-28 1:19 ` Alex Blakemore
1990-02-28 18:56 ` Ada functions versus arrays (i.e. () vs [] ) Richard A Hammond
1990-03-01 3:25 ` Alex Blakemore
1990-03-01 13:11 ` Robert Firth
1990-03-02 10:56 ` Mike Harrison
1990-03-02 23:46 ` Scott Simpson
1990-03-02 10:42 ` Mike Harrison
1990-03-06 19:13 ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-03-08 14:21 ` John Goodenough
1990-03-14 18:19 ` if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop) RCAPENER
1990-03-01 0:29 ` David Kassover
1990-03-01 15:11 ` Steve Tynor
1990-03-01 18:29 ` David Kassover [this message]
1990-03-02 0:19 ` Robert D. Houk
1990-02-28 19:51 ` Andy DeFaria
1990-02-20 22:21 ` Reasons for dropping Ada Jeffrey M. Schweiger
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