On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:06:24 -0600, Wiggins d Anconia wrote
> 
> Yikes, funny I see this as a feature.  You were still passing the wrong
> value, your sub should validate the parameters itself, presuming
> thorough code, it would still have caused an error. 

No comprende.

> Typed return value, yikes, you have just cut out half of the value of
> using a 4GL... Back to C with you! ;-)  Let's see if we can get P5P 
> to implement pointer arithmetic for references...uh....

No, Java has this and no pointer arithmetic is required.

> As Bob stated, I have never used them, though I don't consider 
> myself a true guru.

I would like to use them if just for documentation purposes - it is just
slightly more clear to me to see

sub something( $$$ )
{

than

sub something
{

Still nothing near what I would hope for in 2004, but at least a step.

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