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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,75a8a3664688f227 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-05 21:02:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Parameter Modes, In In Out and Out References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <7Cx56.90736$A06.3322588@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 04:58:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.190.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 978757123 24.20.190.201 (Fri, 05 Jan 2001 20:58:43 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 20:58:43 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3701 Date: 2001-01-06T04:58:43+00:00 List-Id: > An out parameter is still taken in. No, actually, it is not. The formal parameter should be treated as an uninitialized variable. (You can get into some flaky situations if the parameter is passed by reference - a large array, say - but your program should not rely on such things.)