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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: *\\~record depth~//*
Date: 1999/11/09
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3827113A.DCFE454A@callnetuk.com>,
>   Nick Roberts <nickroberts@callnetuk.com> wrote:
>
> <<very nice discussion of why this might be useful snipped>>
<snip>
> For example, it is an angularity
> in the language that out parameters are not allowed in
> procedures, but this restriction is there very deliberately,
> because lots of people think it is an important methodological
> restriction (as everyone knows, I strongly disagree with this
> particular viewpoint, and this point continues to be argued).

Did you mean "out parameters are not allowed in _functions_"?