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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: basic ada question
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:30:26 GMT
Date: 2005-08-20T03:30:26+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mtxNe.9344$RS.5707@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrndgc78g.igi.adi@ppc201.mipool.uni-jena.de>

Adrian Knoth wrote:

> It is a named parameter. You can use it to rearrange the order
> of your parameters when calling a function/procedure.

It's more about clarity than order. Something like

Insert (Into => Name_List, Item => Current.Name);

is usually clearer than

Insert (Name_List, Current.Name);

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!"
Dr. Strangelove
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-20  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-19 16:35 basic ada question Randy
2005-08-19 17:55 ` Adrian Knoth
2005-08-19 20:22   ` Simon Wright
2005-08-19 21:13     ` Adrian Knoth
2005-08-22 13:28     ` Marc A. Criley
2005-08-19 21:43   ` Randy
2005-08-19 22:03     ` Adrian Knoth
2005-08-20  3:30   ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2005-08-20 14:28     ` Robert A Duff
2005-08-21 17:37     ` Steve
2005-08-21 21:45       ` Randy
2005-08-22 13:41         ` Steve
2005-08-23  1:47           ` Steve
2005-08-23 17:24             ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-23 21:32               ` Adrian Knoth
2005-08-24 16:41                 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-20  6:36   ` [OT] Randy
2005-08-20 12:58     ` [OT] Larry Kilgallen
2005-08-20 19:48       ` [OT] Randy
2005-08-20 20:25         ` [OT] Adrian Knoth
2005-08-20 21:55           ` [OT] Way out in Left field Randy
2005-08-20 22:44           ` [OT] Randy
2005-08-20 21:27     ` [OT] TEST Randy
2005-08-20 22:52       ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-08-20 23:00         ` Randy
2005-08-20 22:31 ` [ot] test Randy
2005-08-20 22:39 ` Randy
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