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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re:  Pascal question
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 20:24:17 EST
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Actually, call-by-name is a very interesting method of parameter passing.
How else can you get

	proc foo (i, j : integer);
	begin i := 10; bar (j) end;

	...
		foo (x, a[x]);

to work when you haven't initialized x yet?  :-)
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