Re: Ada 0x Wish List

["Robert Deininger" <rdeininger@mindspring.com>]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 2:23 AM, Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:


>What -I- would like to see is a named parameter association
>that shows you the mode of the parameter....
>
>E.g.
>   procedure X (a : in integer; b : in out integer; c : out integer);
>
>
>   X (a <-  5,
>      b <-> y,
>      c  -> d);
>
>It would be nice to see in a procedure call exactly which way
>the data is going.


Nice idea... But my first gut reaction is that you have your arrows
pointing the wrong way.  Given your procedure declaration, this call is
more intuitive to me:

>   X (a ->  5,
>      b <-> y,
>      c  <- d);

>Not quite sure how you would represent "access" mode. Maybe
>the same as "in out"?
>
>
>Dale
>



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