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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Reprise: 'in out' parameters for functions
Date: 10 Apr 2004 00:47:22 +0200
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> > Can't we fix that one without breaking backwards compatibility?
> 
> procedure Has_A_Result (...) return Result;

Well, this is solution is obviously quite bad because "procedure" and
"function" are now almost (but not quite) interchangeable.

> > Or are politics involved?
> 
> I think so. But there also is the problem of evaluation order,
> though simply ignored for access parameters of functions.

Does making parameters "in out" really make things considerably worse?

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