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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Pass by reference
Date: 11 Apr 2004 14:45:27 +0200
Date: 2004-04-11T14:45:27+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87isg64ra0.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Vfpdc.100356$w54.697665@attbi_s01

"Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net> writes:

> I am only aware of one (obscure) case in Ada where passing by reference
> versus passing by value makes a difference.

Another (not-so-obscure) case are exceptions.  Pass-by-copy parameters
retain their values if the subprogram raises an exception.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-11 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-08 14:52 Pass by reference Dan McLeran
2004-04-08 18:21 ` Martin Krischik
2004-04-09 12:53   ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-13 12:42     ` Martin Krischik
2004-04-08 19:04 ` Jim Rogers
2004-04-09  3:24   ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-09  0:01 ` Stephen Leake
2004-04-09 12:38   ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-09 13:03     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-04-09 19:09       ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-10 10:49         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-04-11 12:43       ` Florian Weimer
2004-04-12 10:29         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-04-12 12:29           ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-04-13  8:46             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-04-10  1:42     ` Stephen Leake
2004-04-10 16:05       ` chris
2004-04-09 12:44   ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-09 22:44     ` Randy Brukardt
2004-04-09 14:44   ` Simon Wright
2004-04-09  1:15 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-04-09  1:28   ` Pat Rogers
2004-04-10  1:05     ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-04-09 12:57   ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-10  1:16     ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-04-09  4:03 ` Steve
2004-04-09 14:50   ` Simon Wright
2004-04-09 17:12     ` Pat Rogers
2004-04-09 19:33       ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-04-10  6:33         ` Simon Wright
2004-04-13 10:26           ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-04-14 17:27             ` Simon Wright
2004-04-15  9:43               ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-04-17  7:59                 ` Simon Wright
2004-04-11 12:45   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
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