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,a00006d3c4735d70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-29 12:23:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!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: In-Out Parameters for functions Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:23:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <1075225041.167448@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1075303237.975898@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <9khh10pti0dn8gcp7f18ghptaifluj0fud@4ax.com> <1075390647.405841@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1075405582.982776@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1075407802 5622 134.91.1.34 (29 Jan 2004 20:23:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:23:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5063 Date: 2004-01-29T20:23:22+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: : In general, the compiler cannot know whether particular : code has such order dependencies or not, and so cannot reliably : warn of such uses. True, however in general, i.e. in the presence of global state, a _programmer_ cannot know what the results of evaluating expressions in order will be. A reason is complexity of the required reasoning, in particular in the presense of tasking. -- Georg