"Steve" a �crit dans le message de news:m3Vza.963555$3D1.566040@sccrnsc01... > What do you think of the idea of also optionally giving the mode of the > parameter, which if present must match the function or procedure > declaration. That is, extending the above example: > > result := Add( in left => 2, in right => 3 ); > Sigh... In the green language proposal, associations between formal and actual used ":=" for in parameters, "=:" for out parameters, and ":=:" for in out parameters. It was later dropped, I don't remember why, but presumably because it was felt that the gain was not worth the extra complexity. So this idea, although it has some merit, is not really new... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr