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Date: 2012-11-16T12:29:55-05:00
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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