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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: List of Negative Language rules?
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:25:05 +0300
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On 12-08-05 21:42 , Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 07:39:42 -0700 (PDT), Patrick
> <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> declaimed the following in
> comp.lang.ada:
> 
> 
>>
>> Pre-Ada 2012 functions cannot take in parameters
> 
> 	Prior to Ada 2012, functions ONLY took "IN" parameters, so
> designation of the parameter as of "IN" mode was redundant and unneeded.

But "in" mode could be specified explicitly, if desired, and some coding
style/rule guides required it.

> Ada 2012 opens functions up to having side-effects via the use of "IN
> OUT" parameters,

A function in Ada 2012 can also have pure "out" parameters.

> so one now has to designate the mode of the parameter.

What, "has to"? Specifing the mode is still optional, in Ada 2012 as
before, and "in" mode is the default. Even for functions. At least as I
read the RM.

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Niklas Holsti
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