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: 2004-01-27 16:13:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.glorb.com!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nnx.oleane.net!oleane!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: In-Out Parameters for functions Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 03:09:01 +0300 (MSK) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <1075237783.136702@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 1075248497 59684 80.67.180.195 (28 Jan 2004 00:08:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:08:17 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <1075237783.136702@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>; from Hyman Rosen at Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:09:43 -0500 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 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:4957 Date: 2004-01-28T03:09:01+03:00 Hyman Rosen wrote: > > "Random" is very special case > > So is any function which reads data from an external source, > so it's not quite as special as you would have us believe. No, I was answering for the case where Ada's standard function assumes (or requires) that behaviour. But Ada's standard Get (in Ada.Text_IO) is not a function, it is a procedure. > It would be nice to be able to say (in my pidgin Ada) > Point p := (x => get(), y => get(), z => get()); > and know that the members would be read in the order given, > not in some arbitray order. If you want really nice programming environment of this kind, you probably should try APL. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia