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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,a00006d3c4735d70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-28 09:11:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!meganewsservers.com!feeder1.fl.meganewsservers.com!news.moat.net!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:11:33 -0600 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:11:30 -0500 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: In-Out Parameters for functions References: <1077718871.47635@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <54cp3095jmv8s17h63d4bjdus0tec7l7pt@jellix.jlfencey.com> <1077721343.481619@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1077724400.221032@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1077727496.631820@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <103q2cf890pus79@corp.supernews.com> <1077744815.17965@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <-tednUSWDcMxbqDdRVn-sw@comcast.com> <260l1c.ped1.ln@skymaster> In-Reply-To: <260l1c.ped1.ln@skymaster> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <68idndVxW79YVt3dRVn-sw@comcast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.77.160 X-Trace: sv3-SdsXjcZnMpyRj9XA8/tedDV4YD+gNS+/WZn9yzWTp6yGE8xUSHg8gHRcBOV9JZt6EU5ByEoBpiOPzI/!qCIYNYw6P/LZ8bFO+093R9DaO3tZvbP23FmhgFGgIa4qlWzXoOMrN0ag7jCCJw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5927 Date: 2004-02-28T12:11:30-05:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > "Robert I. Eachus" a �crit dans le message de news:-tednUSWDcMxbqDdRVn-sw@comcast.com... > >>What do we do with Mr. Hymen Rosen? For now, I'm going to just post >>chapter and verse, and that Mr. Rosen's opinion on any Ada language >>issue should be ignored. > Please always use qualified notation (with the first-name). Otherwise, a partial quotation of the above would overload several > people :-) Good point, I explicitly qualified the first reference for just that reason--that the paragraph might be quoted out of context. I probably should have either used "his" or a full name for the second reference as well. As you well know, of course, it is very hard to write something that doesn't sound stilted, and still stands up to hostile (mis-)interpretation. -- Robert I. Eachus "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." --Edmund Burke