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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: In-Out Parameters for functions
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:47:12 +0000 (UTC)
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* Wojtek Narczynski wrote:
> How about:
> Battery(Catcher => GetName then Pitcher => GetName, Doorman => GetName);

Very bad. Hard to read. Hard to maintain. Bad Ada-Style.

   declare
      catcher : constant Name := GetName;
      pitcher : constant Name := GetName;
      doorman : constant Name := GetName;
   begin
      Battery(catcher, pitcher, doorman);
   end;

Moderate to write, moderate to read and easy to understand/maintain.