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Subject: Re: Usage of Interfaces with Ada 95
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> > Michael Erdmann <Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de> writes:
> > 
> > >     First          - Return the first element
> 
> This will have a problem in Ada since you'll be treating the iterator
> as an in out parameter to what otherwise looks like a function.

Actually I didn't catch that.  I assumed First returned an iterator
value.  But you're right, it looks like this function has side-effect.