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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: State of the compiler market
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 11:17:33 +0200
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Date: 2017-07-01T11:17:33+02:00
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On 2017-07-01 10:06, darkestkhan wrote:
> On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 2:19:41 PM UTC, Lucretia wrote:
>> On Friday, 30 June 2017 14:57:48 UTC+1, Alejandro R. Mosteo  wrote:
>>> On 29/06/17 13:36, Lucretia wrote:
>>>
>>>> Remove access types in functions, allow in out in them.
>>>
>>> This is in Ada 2012.
>>
>> Yes, I know. But that was added after the access type parameters,
>> which was a hack around no in out.
> 
> How are you going to pass a subprogram to a subprogram if you remove
> access type parameters?

As it should have been:

    function Integrate
             (  X : Points;
                F : function (X : Float) return Float
             )  return Float;
    ...
    Result := Integrate (Data, Sine);

Access types are not required for downward closures.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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