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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a00006d3c4735d70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-26 22:07:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!newsfeed3.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: In-Out Parameters for functions Date: 27 Feb 2004 01:00:56 -0500 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <1075390647.405841@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1075851506.238480@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <4020C947.81A6D703@0.0> <1075907239.138068@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <402232E9.3EE15B4B@0.0> <1075987360.225622@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <40236C0B.E988E003@0.0> <1077634311.254581@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <82347202.0402251405.2db2f3c5@posting.google.com> <1077747598.55635@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1077861673 41553 212.85.156.195 (27 Feb 2004 06:01:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 06:01:13 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5883 Date: 2004-02-27T01:00:56-05:00 "Robert I. Eachus" writes: > You can't but Randy posted a very good explanation of why his compiler > does it in a different order. And even at the risk of sounding like a > broken record, the Ada standard say this will be done in "an arbitrary > order." Hymen is trying to discuss a change to that Ada rule. Repeating what the current Ada rules say is not helpful. > If a user wants to, he can use other language rules (and code that > makes it obvious that it is intentional) to force a particular > evaluation order. But it is much harder to do that than to make the > code agnostic about evaluation order, and that is intentional. Ok. Some of us don't understand why it is harder; that would be a useful thing to talk about. -- -- Stephe