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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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* Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> This is something I don't fully understand. IFAIK,
>
> procedure Proc (Blah : access Some_Type);
>
> access parameters raise an excepcion if null. So I don't get what adds 
> to the language the
>
> Blah : not null access ...
>
> construct.

procedure Proc(Blah : in out Some_Type);