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Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> Since we are discussion the effects of subprogram specs on programmer
> intuition, Random's parameter Gen being of mode "in" is at odds with
> the usual meaning of "in".

Likewise Ada.Text_IO --

   procedure Set_Page_Length (File : File_Type; To : Count);

as a particularly "wrong" example. But see AI95-00057:
http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ais/ai-00057.txt?rev=1.6
(practicality wins over purity).