From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Valued procedures
Date: 1999/01/21
Date: 1999-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <787gb8$kp2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 786pfu$1vb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <786pfu$1vb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
dmitry6243@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Further, I believe it should be possible to ignore the result of a procedure.
> (Using Ada bindings would be much less painful and produce clearer code if you
> were not forced to declare tonns of dummy variables just to ignore various
> unused results.) So that either
The Ada way to handle this is to overload the procedure with a version that
does not return those results, and in its body call the first (full) routine.
This does add an extra layer to your bindings, but bindings to another
language are almost *always* awkward to use in Ada without adding another
layer. That's what's meant by "thick" bindings.
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-21 0:00 Valued procedures dmitry6243
1999-01-21 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-21 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-01-21 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-21 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dmitry6243
1999-01-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-21 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-21 0:00 ` adam
1999-01-22 0:00 ` adam
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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