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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Reprise: 'in out' parameters for functions
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:04:10 +0200
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Florian Weimer wrote:

> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:
> 
>> Ada has a wart. Let's admit it, and move on.
> 
> Can't we fix that one without breaking backwards compatibility?

procedure Has_A_Result (...) return Result;

> Or are politics involved?

I think so. But there also is the problem of evaluation order, though simply
ignored for access parameters of functions.

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