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-Thread: 103376,34257fd17abeba14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [SPARK] Code safety and information hiding References: <7V3Fg.13573$E02.5018@newsb.telia.net> <_C8Fg.96140$FQ1.5902@attbi_s71> In-Reply-To: <_C8Fg.96140$FQ1.5902@attbi_s71> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:39:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.106.238 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1155929976 83.250.106.238 (Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:39:36 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:39:36 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6262 Date: 2006-08-18T19:39:36+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey R. Carter skrev: > Bj�rn Persson wrote: >> Do you call them state variables even when they're local in a >> subprogram and "global" only to a nested subprogram? > > Generally, no. Do you think we could come up with a good word for them? They could be described as external to the nested subprogram, but if we'd call them "external variables" it would sound like they were declared as "extern" in C. How about "outer" or "outside" variables? I agree with all of what you wrote by the way. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu