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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2004-02@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: In-Out Parameters for functions
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

>For the particular case of sqrt(x), where we're talking
>about Ada's built-in sqrt, and the only possible side-effect
>is for it to raise an exception. But if instead we have
>(gnurble(x) > 0.5 and b), and the compiler knows that b is
>false but has no information about what gnurble does, it
>must call gnurble(x) even though the result is irrelevant.

Yes, it should (I'm not sure, if it actually *has to*) call the
function if it is possible that the function has side-effects.

What's your problem here?


Vinzent.