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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 19:07:15 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 2012: In-out parameters for functions Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 20:07:21 -0400 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < Message-ID: References: <7704abab-86f2-4edc-ad4b-b3d4e70004fb@googlegroups.com> <19a6badd-ed0f-4023-9100-b9ab653a7f23@googlegroups.com> <7d34787f-9965-42bc-b847-6ccbbf473f6a@googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.79.216.163 X-Trace: sv3-rEwRKFDSBQJnrJA8hxhyA4VlhszkAXxhHx3RIixLgetHTRUgxeEViA1zSekyrS1RbS56zpieBmC8I71!GwmwPurobI4ua+inBtBain4A8wud+vbwYtCDLflKJJEbmBs8Wd0+MTfgKuT+2rjzuZ+1alkHyihw!xWXowKh1o65udh5AKuy5zoxfHZfYktuhajRqvpYlnNc= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2353 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:15383 Date: 2013-05-06T20:07:21-04:00 List-Id: On Mon, 6 May 2013 09:47:34 -0700 (PDT), Adam Beneschan declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada: > No, just suffering from caffeine deficiency syndrome. Of course I didn't mean "declarations" in the last case. Change this to "mode specifications", or "mode keywords", or something like that. I just typed the wrong word. > > Allowing mode keywords in the call would serve two purposes: [etc...] > > It does not declare the parameter mode. > While I don't care for the proposal -- don't we have an IDE lying around that could look up the declaration while cursoring over a call? I'd suggest replacing "mode keywords" with "intent keywords" -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/