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,f8a66fb9d0293bf4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Passing arrays to procedures References: <41C98E38.7000908@mailinator.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:50:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.189.0.227 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1103763039 63.189.0.227 (Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:50:39 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:50:39 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7186 Date: 2004-12-23T00:50:39+00:00 List-Id: Ada allows nested scopes: procedure Outer is type Blah is array (Something range <>) of Something_Else; procedure Inner (X : in Blah) is ... end Blah; V : Blah := ...; begin -- Outer Inner (X => V); end Outer; However, the primary form of encapsulation in Ada is the package. -- Jeff Carter "If I could find a sheriff who so offends the citizens of Rock Ridge that his very appearance would drive them out of town ... but where would I find such a man? Why am I asking you?" Blazing Saddles 37