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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Valued procedures
Date: 1999/01/21
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In article <787poa$toc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <787gb8$kp2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Wrong on both counts. Thin bindings routinely provide a
> procedure and function version for such interfaces.

Yikes! There's a trick I had forgotten about. You would still need procedures
like I described if you want to leave out optional output *parameters* (other
than ones at the end). But I don't think that's what Dmitry was getting at.

T.E.D.

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