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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: Limited_Controlled types as 'out' arguments
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:59:10 +0000 (UTC)
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* Martin Dowie wrote:
> "Lutz Donnerhacke" <lutz@iks-jena.de> wrote in message
>>    procedure Copy(to : out Test; from : Test) is
>>    begin
>>       to.a := global;
>>       Put_Line("Copying " & from.a & " to " & to.a);
>>       global := Character'Succ(global);
>>    end Copy;
>
> Shouldn't this actually copy something out of 'from'?

For examples you cut your real world problem until it's small.
Yes, it's sufficent to call 'procedure example(a : out Test)'.