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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: passing a const by reference
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 12:51:03 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  4 12:51:03 1985
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>       Ada has IN, OUT, and IN-OUT arguments.  This is clearly the
> right way to go.  By-reference or by-value then becomes an implementation
> detail.

Except that we still have to "outlaw" aliasing and most of the other classical
problems...

-- Norman Diamond

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