From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Problems with 'class, help anyone?
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:27:30 +0100
Date: 2002-11-08T15:27:30+01:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: wcc1y5wi3bw.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> a �crit dans le message news:
wcc1y5wi3bw.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> > So I think that one should leave "function"s as they are, and
> > just allow procedures with results:
> >
> > procedure Foo (...) return Bar;
>
> Yeah, and then eliminate the "function Foo..." syntax.
> That would solve the problem!
>
FWIW, early Ada (ca 1979) made the difference between functions (that had to
be pure) and "value returning procedures" with the above syntax, which
allowed arbitrary side-effects. This has been dropped in the process, but at
least it means that the issue has been considered.
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2002-10-29 4:48 Problems with 'class, help anyone?
2002-10-29 6:08 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-29 19:10 `
2002-10-30 5:27 `
2002-10-30 7:49 ` Simon Wright
2002-10-30 8:13 ` Jim Rogers
2002-11-02 4:02 `
2002-11-05 2:40 `
2002-11-05 4:56 ` Jim Rogers
2002-11-05 17:25 ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-05 22:29 ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-06 8:54 ` Pascal Obry
2002-11-06 15:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-11-06 17:18 ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-07 14:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-11-06 15:19 ` Ted Dennison
2002-11-06 17:22 ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-07 10:32 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-07 15:53 ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-06 13:48 ` John English
2002-11-07 15:07 ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-08 9:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-11-08 13:44 ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-08 14:27 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
2002-11-09 18:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-11-11 9:51 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-11-11 13:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-11-11 13:55 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-11-09 19:02 ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-10 17:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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2002-11-09 0:11 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2002-11-11 9:03 Grein, Christoph
2002-11-11 15:12 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2002-11-12 12:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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