From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4ce0ea7d497db907 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!v1g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: anonymous access type Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:35:04 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <940b94f3-72b7-420d-8c5f-232fb9a7e9b3@v1g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <51889345-8760-4804-b706-36a436810719@r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1236119704 9806 127.0.0.1 (3 Mar 2009 22:35:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v1g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4879 Date: 2009-03-03T14:35:04-08:00 List-Id: On Mar 3, 1:03 pm, sjw wrote: > Personally I find the 'in' keyword annoying and a waste of 3 > characters! Rather like initialising an object of an access type with > ":= null". Your mileage obviously varies ... My practice has generally been to use the "in" keyword for procedure parameters (to keep the look consistent with other parameters), but not for function parameters, since that's the only allowed mode anyway. At least, it's the only allowed mode this month................ -- Adam