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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9def0a9c238c7bd8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-13 08:32:58 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!209.50.235.254!europa.netcrusader.net!205.252.116.205!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: "Robert Deininger" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 0x Wish List Date: 13 Feb 2001 11:33:32 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: a5.f7.19.db Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 13 Feb 2001 16:31:54 GMT X-Mailer: Cyberdog/2.0 X-News-Servers: news.mindspring.com X-Newsgroups-TO: nntp://news.mindspring.com/comp.lang.ada Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5224 Date: 2001-02-13T16:31:54+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 2:23 AM, Dale Stanbrough 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 > --------------------------- Robert Deininger rdeininger@mindspring.com