Re: On functions and access types.

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

Caffeine Junky <nospam@hotmail.com> writes:

> Now the compiler tells me that I cannot assign to an 'in' parameter.
> However, as I understand it, a function can only take an 'in' parameter.

That's right.  If you want a function to modify its argument,
you can use an access parameter, like "S: access Stack;",
and call it with Some_Stack'Access.

But in this case, it's better to use a procedure.

> Now, eventually I changed this to a procedure for the sake of expediancy.

That's the right solution.

- Bob