From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Overring function and its returned type
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:29:55 -0500
Date: 2012-11-16T12:29:55-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <_oydneWckpiO5TvN4p2dnAA@giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8998c0eb-c9b1-4501-9163-94172aa4aea0@googlegroups.com>
On 11/16/2012 10:27 AM, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> An interesting property of Ada, and what makes this issue more
> difficult than in C++ is that Ada supports out parameters, which from
> the language design point of view should work like return values.
> Covariant return types are easy to picture, but covariant out
> parameters? Hm... Maybe this is where things would start to shake.
Yes, interesting point about parameter modes!
Peter
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2012-11-09 7:13 Overring function and its returned type Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-11-09 7:22 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-11-09 8:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-11-09 9:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-11-09 13:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-11-09 21:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-11-09 19:24 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-11-09 19:34 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-11-09 22:00 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-11-09 22:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-11-09 19:57 ` sbelmont700
2012-11-09 21:10 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-11-09 21:56 ` sbelmont700
2012-11-10 0:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-11-10 2:35 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-11-15 15:13 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-11-16 10:40 ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-11-16 12:39 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-11-16 15:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-11-16 17:29 ` Peter C. Chapin [this message]
2012-11-17 4:16 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-11-17 19:11 ` Robert A Duff
2012-11-18 14:53 ` AdaMagica
2012-11-19 8:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-11-19 13:04 ` AdaMagica
2012-11-19 15:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-11-19 23:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-11-10 7:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-11-11 1:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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