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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Concatenation and Characters
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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
:>> procedure Foo (X : out Integer := 23);
: procedure Foo (X : out Integer);
:>> function Foo returns Integer := 23;

Anything wrong with explicitly passing a success indication
parameter or a default value? For example,

  function foo(default: integer:= 23) return Integer;

: [...] should be made illegal for types which have no reasonable initial
: value, because there is a possibility that X will be left unset. If it
: is a desired behavior then probably it would be better to make it
: clear from the specification.

-- georg