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From: bhaskar@fluke.UUCP (K.S. Bhaskar)
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Subject: Re: Ada (TM) vs C
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 17:00:57 EDT
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As a follow-up comment to Mark Horton's, I think that the issue of calling a
procedure for each variable (as opposed to a single call to something like
printf) is one of purity vs. expediency.  However, one language I know of
steers an in-between course as follows:  a function can be declared as
f(a,b,c) where c can be declared a repeatable parameter.  Then, a call like
f(p,q,r,s,t) is (almost) equivalent to f(p,q,r); f(p,q,s); f(p,q,t) -- the
difference is that p and q are evaluated just once (which makes the almost
equivalence even better than full equivalence).  This language is Mainsail.

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