From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,af3dada69080e420 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-26 05:44:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-pas-nf2!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!eusc.inter.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interesting effects in array renaming Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:44:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <3EF5E6B8.3030203@spam.com> <3EF7B8CC.3000100@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1056631494 27041 134.91.1.15 (26 Jun 2003 12:44:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:44:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/831)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39771 Date: 2003-06-26T12:44:54+00:00 List-Id: Vinzent Hoefler wrote: : 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 pure : limited) side effects is a quite good one. Image the name of the beast wasn't function.