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Subject: Re: Access parameters and accessibility
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On 12/15/2014 10:54 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
> The rule is: don't ever use this.

I second this.

Anonymous access types, of which access parameters are instances, are a bad
idea. The language would be better off without them.

Public access types, and public subprograms with parameters of access types, are
also bad ideas.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"The time has come to act, and act fast. I'm leaving."
Blazing Saddles
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