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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> This seems to be a very common misconception about Ada that tends to
> come from C/C++ programmers approaching the language for the first
> time. Clearly, many programmers are simply used to having to do
> something explicit to get pass-by-reference and think it won't
> happen unless they make it so.  I have encountered this
> misconception often when teaching Ada. I don't know what could be
> done with teaching materials, reference documents or the language
> itself to make it more clear that the compiler will handle this for
> you and won't do something stupid. It just seems to occur over and
> over again and Ada gets a bad name over something that is just being
> misunderstood.

I'm not sure that this particular issue is the right way round (well,
it wasn't for me when I encountered it).

I had a Socket (record) type which needed to be passed by reference
but wasn't; the cure was to make it tagged, which I was less than
happy with. I forget why 'limited' wouldn't do ..

So I _did_ have to do something explicit to get pass-by-reference.