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From: pete@nospam <pete_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: Side-Effects in Functions [Rosen Trick]
Date: 4 Nov 2001 23:26:03 -0800
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functions, in the mathemtical sense, do not accept an IN OUT paramters,
and do not have side effects.

y=f(x), x here can never be modified by the function f().

so, Ada function is more like a math function.