From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Newbie question:procedural variables(call by reference)?
Date: 15 Sep 2003 14:20:31 -0400
Date: 2003-09-15T18:23:05+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uvfrtrk0g.fsf@nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3F65EBF4.7CF3@mail.ru
Dmytry Lavrov <m31415@mail.ru> writes:
> There are no procedural variables(calls by reference) in ADA,right?(or i
> missed something...).
You can pass a pointer to a subprogram as a parameter to an Ada
subprogram. Generally, the subprogram must be a library-level
subprogram, but sometimes you can use a local subprogram.
> How to live without 'em? (i guess , 'like in java' ;-)
Generics usually provide a better way to get the same result. "Better"
here means more type-safe, more easily understood.
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-- Stephe
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2003-09-15 16:42 Newbie question:procedural variables(call by reference)? Dmytry Lavrov
2003-09-15 18:20 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2003-09-15 18:50 ` Gautier Write-only
2003-09-15 18:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-09-16 10:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-09-15 23:22 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-09-18 9:06 ` Dmytry Lavrov
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