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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 4 May 1993 14:34:03 MST
Date: 29 Apr 93 18:47:55 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!msuinfo!uchinews!ellis!goer@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Organization: University of Chicago
Subject: Re: var paramters
Message-Id: <1993Apr29.184755.6046@midway.uchicago.edu>
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>From the programmer's point of view, the fact that it's a var parameter
>should be obvious from reading the call site, so that I can see which
>parameters are going to get cronged.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I guess this is why I like to avoid these sorts of side-effects.
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-Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer