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From: murphy@beatnix.UUCP (Michael Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Parameter modes
Message-ID: <1164@elxsi.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 23:46:12 GMT
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Reply-To: murphy@beatnix.UUCP (Michael Murphy)
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I'm rather baffled by what you are saying.  The LRM does indeed allow you
to pass parameters by reference, and in fact I know of some (validated) 
compilers that do.  For example, all Verdix-based compilers can pass
parameters by reference.  I suspect that you have simply heard some lame
excuses from some compiler vendors who didn't go to the trouble of
implementing pass-by-reference (perhaps I'm being too harsh here,
but if so then can someone post an example that shows why you cannot
use pass-by-reference?).

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