From: eva_remove_this_ns@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr)
Subject: Re: Future Ada language revisions?
Date: 1998/09/28
Date: 1998-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eva_remove_this_ns-2809980910030001@ppp4.s9.pgh.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Sep27.181539.1@eisner
In article <6um7on$db5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, bpr5549@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> PS: In case anyone is wondering, my main peeve is the restriction on
> out mode function parameters, which I just don't understand, even when
> I'm trying to open minded. I have yet to hear a good defense of this
> restriction, so if anyone has one, I'm all ears, errr, eyes.
and in article <1998Sep27.181539.1@eisner>,
Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
> On a more pragmatic note, what do you feel has changed about the world
> since 1995 to make people change their minds on this issue? There is
> no sense wasting resources to debate an issue when those with a vote
> have chosen (twice) to let people use procedures rather than functions
> to solve this need.
When this issue was debated during the Ada-9X design process, several of
us came out strongly in favor of permitting out parameters in functions,
at least those with pragma interface C if not elsewhere; we lost. It
seems to me that it's quite in order for contributors to cla to offer
reasoned objections to this -- or any -- Ada-9X design decision. After
all, there will surely be an Ada-0X design some time.
Art Evans
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-27 0:00 Future Ada language revisions? bpr5549
1998-09-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-09-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-09-28 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-28 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-10-02 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr [this message]
1998-09-28 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-28 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-05 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1998-10-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-05 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-05 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-06 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1998-10-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-03 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-05 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-04 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-05 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1998-10-05 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-05 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1998-10-05 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-06 0:00 ` r_barton1
1998-10-06 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-06 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-06 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1998-10-06 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1998-10-06 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-07 0:00 ` dewarr
[not found] ` <tgmF02yDo.A84@netcom.com>
1998-10-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-08 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-09 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-08 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-10-21 0:00 Van Snyder
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
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