Re: Ada 0x Wish List

[Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 2:23 AM, Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> What -I- would like to see is a named parameter association
> that shows you the mode of the parameter....
> 
> E.g.
>    procedure X (a : in integer; b : in out integer; c : out integer);
> 
> 
>    X (a <-  5,
>       b <-> y,
>       c  -> d);
> 
> It would be nice to see in a procedure call exactly which way
> the data is going.

I think the 1979 preliminary version of Ada had something like
this; the syntax was

    X ( a :=  5,
        b :=: y,
        c =:  d );

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