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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Access and alias
Date: 2000/04/05
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In article <38EB55AE.D4A241FD@icn.siemens.de>,
  Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de> wrote:
> If you write your own bindings, you shouldn't work with 'address. Use
> an in out parameter instead.
> E.g. proc (ref : SYSTEM.ADDRESS); --> proc (ref : in out X);

...unless you are writing a binding to a function, in which case you are
back to using addresses.

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