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-Thread: 103376,34257fd17abeba14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s71.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [SPARK] Code safety and information hiding References: <7V3Fg.13573$E02.5018@newsb.telia.net> <_C8Fg.96140$FQ1.5902@attbi_s71> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s71 1155965713 12.201.97.176 (Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:35:13 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:35:13 GMT Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:35:13 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6265 Date: 2006-08-19T05:35:13+00:00 List-Id: Bj�rn Persson wrote: > > Do you think we could come up with a good word for them? They could be > described as external to the nested subprogram, but if we'd call them > "external variables" it would sound like they were declared as "extern" > in C. How about "outer" or "outside" variables? How about "non-local"? -- Jeff Carter "Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" Monty Python's Life of Brian 80