From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Return by reference
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:33:18 -0600
Date: 2017-12-18T16:33:18-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p19fne$jr1$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a94cf715-a4a4-42bb-8800-9bb6a8baf9ac@googlegroups.com
"Jere" <jhb.chat@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a94cf715-a4a4-42bb-8800-9bb6a8baf9ac@googlegroups.com...
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> I was wondering if Ada could take a step with it further
> and provide a syntax for return by reference.
No. It doesn't semantically make sense as a stand-alone concept. We tried a
whole bunch of ideas on that line before giving up and adopting the implicit
dereference mechanism.
Randy.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-17 14:38 Return by reference Jere
2017-12-17 14:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-18 0:51 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-18 8:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-18 10:47 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-18 12:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-18 22:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-18 22:33 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2017-12-19 1:29 ` Jere
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1999-11-02 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-04 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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