zben@umd5 (Ben Cranston) (08/27/86)
In article <2400@ihlpg.UUCP> tainter@ihlpg.UUCP (Tainter) writes: > The win for by-reference parameters is the syntax of their use in the callEE. > I do extensive personal programming in pascal and C. When rereading pascal > with by-reference parameters I do at times lose track of what is a var > parameter at the callER level but never at the callEE level. C fixes this > but at the expense of excessive clutter and confusion with pointers inside > the callEE. I work extensively with a Sperry language called Plus. It requires reference arguments to be marked (with a percent sign) in BOTH places. When I started it seemed redundant, but it is interesting that it makes *sure* you know in *both* contexts what is going on... -- umd5.UUCP <= {seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben Ben Cranston zben @ umd2.UMD.EDU Kingdom of Merryland Sperrows 1100/92 umd2.BITNET "via HASP with RSCS"