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: 103376,9f3d09bde7b33b5d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-08 18:29:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr24.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!c290090c!not-for-mail From: "Pat Rogers" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <19b0e504.0404080652.4eab9f80@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Pass by reference X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.191.177.108 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr24.news.prodigy.com 1081474095 ST000 208.191.177.108 (Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:28:15 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:28:15 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: SCSGWWCEJKVOBTT^]BCB^]\@PJ_^PBQLGPQRJVMHQAVTUZ]CLNTCPFK[WDXDHV[K^FCGJCJLPF_D_NCC@FUG^Q\DINVAXSLIFXYJSSCCALP@PB@\OS@BITWAH\CQZKJMMD^SJA^NXA\GVLSRBD^M_NW_F[YLVTWIGAXAQBOATKBBQRXECDFDMQ\DZFUE@\JM Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 01:28:15 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6876 Date: 2004-04-09T01:28:15+00:00 List-Id: > The Ada rules, simple version, for parameter passing mechanisms, are: > > Elementary types are always passed by copy. > > Tagged and private types are always passed by reference. You meant "limited" rather than "private" in the above, I'm sure. > > Other types have the mechanism chosen by the compiler. > > The parameter mode (in, in out, and out) is completely unrelated to > the parameter passing mechanism.