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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada 2012: In-out parameters for functions
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"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message 
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>> Ada 80 (?) would have said
>>
>>    Proc (In_Param =: A, Out_Param := B, In_Out_Param :=: C)

I think that was Ada 79. We started implementing Ada 80 (it was 1981, after 
all, Ada 83 was still a couple years away), and it didn't have those 
symbols. I just pulled the our (last) Ada 80 manual off the shelf, and it 
has the same list of delimiters that Ada 2012 does.

> Don't know why they didn't stick with it.

That I don't know, it predates me as noted above. It's ugly?? :-)

                                      Randy.