From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4ce0ea7d497db907 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nx02.iad.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!novia!novia!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: anonymous access type Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:01:41 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <51889345-8760-4804-b706-36a436810719@r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <940b94f3-72b7-420d-8c5f-232fb9a7e9b3@v1g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1236182501 32431 192.74.137.71 (4 Mar 2009 16:01:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:01:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0h1Hs8PdzHZPPoO1IPU7vX9ksb4= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3935 Date: 2009-03-04T11:01:41-05:00 List-Id: christoph.grein@eurocopter.com writes: > On Mar 3, 11:35�pm, Adam Beneschan wrote: >> My practice has generally been to use the "in" keyword for procedure >> parameters (to keep the look consistent with other parameters), but >> not for function parameters, since that's the only allowed mode >> anyway. �At least, it's the only allowed mode this >> month................ > > It has been the only one since 1980 and will probably stay so for the > next 30 or so years if not some earthquake overturns the ARG. There is an AI about allowing 'in out' and 'out' parameters on functions. I think it actually has a good chance of being approved some time in the next few years. I am in favor of it, in part because it allows one to avoid various kludgery involving anonymous access types. It's AI05-0134. - Bob