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Subject: Re: Passing a 2d array into a package and returning the same
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:01:23 -0700
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On 09/30/2016 03:27 PM, diane74@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello again, new Ada programmer with a hopefully easy question.
> I am trying to take a 2d array pass it to a package have the package change the data in the 2d array and send the same 2d array (with modified data) back to the main program. I am currently away from my computer or I would show you my broken code, though I doubt it would be useful.

It sounds as if you might be interested in "Formal Parameter Modes", defined in 
ARM 6.2:

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-6-2.html

The mode defines the direction of data flow between the subprogram and the 
caller: "in" means data flows from the caller into the subprogram; "out" means 
data flows from the subprogram back to the caller; what "in out" means is left 
as an exercise for the reader.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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