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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Return by reference
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:33:18 -0600
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"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.