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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Interesting effects in array renaming
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:27:47 +0200
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Date: 2003-06-26T08:27:47+02:00
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Randy Brukardt wrote:

>But there are a number of things about Ada that are wrong (the inability
>to use "in out" parameters on functions is the most obvious to me),

In fact the idea that a function shall have no (or at least very
limited) side effects is a quite good one. Well, you still can use
global variables or access-Parameters to circumvent this restriction,
so perhaps one can consider it as rather inconsequential, but wrong?
No, I don't think so.


Vinzent.