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: 103376,9f3d09bde7b33b5d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-09 18:05:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Pass by reference References: <19b0e504.0404080652.4eab9f80@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 01:05:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.0.98 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1081559113 63.184.0.98 (Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:05:13 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:05:13 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6933 Date: 2004-04-10T01:05:13+00:00 List-Id: Pat Rogers wrote: >>The Ada rules, simple version, for parameter passing mechanisms, > > are: > >>Elementary types are always passed by copy. >> >>Tagged and private types are always passed by reference. > > > You meant "limited" rather than "private" in the above, I'm sure. Yes, of course. Sorry. -- Jeff Carter "I'm a kike, a yid, a heebie, a hook nose! I'm Kosher, Mum! I'm a Red Sea pedestrian, and proud of it!" Monty Python's Life of Brian 77