[omniORB] in()?

[Duncan Grisby]

On Friday 2 February, I wrote:

> > What does the in() function do?
> > For example...
> > 	orb.in()
> > 	root_poa.in()
> > 
> > Is in() a virtual function in a base class?
> 
> What in() function?  There isn't a function named "in" anywhere.

Actually, I was wrong. _var types _do_ have a function named in(). It
doesn't do anything -- it's just there for symmetry with out() and
inout(), which help with memory management in argument passing.

In fact, out() and inout() are redundant in omniORB too -- they were
added to the specification because other ORB vendors couldn't figure
out how to implement the right semantics without them.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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