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: 103376,4180a73b05d119c7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-18 23:31:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mark Biggar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ML-like alternatives to out parameters for functions References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.235.88.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1048059082 12.235.88.213 (Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:31:22 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:31:22 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:31:22 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35496 Date: 2003-03-19T07:31:22+00:00 List-Id: Mark Lorenzen wrote: > There has lately been some discussions about Ada's missing > capabilities for specifying out parameters for functions. Apparently > this is a needed feature and an AI (AI-323) has been issued. Unfortunatly, the last ARG meeting voted AI-323 "No Action" so it is dead and will not be included in the amendment set for the 0X version of the language. -- Mark Biggar mark@biggar.org mark.a.biggar@attbi.com