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From: "Ayende Rahien" <Dont@spam.me>
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Subject: Re: Problem trying to implement generics.
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"Brian Rogoff" <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Robert A Duff wrote:
> > "Ayende Rahien" <Dont@spam.me> writes:
> >
> > > BTW, is there any reason why I can't use out parameter with a
function?
> >
> > Because it's not allowed.  ;-)
> >
> > Hmm, are we going have this argument again?  Oh well, it's kind of fun,
> > in a time-wasting sort of way.  Here goes:
> >
> > If I ran the circus, functions would be allowed to have 'out' and 'in
> > out' parameters.
>
> Or, would you just allow procedures to return values? ;-)

No, but I would like to have a function that I can place in an if (etc) that
change the variables I gives it. It's not a big deal, I was just wondering
what was the reason for this decistion.