Passing arguments into functions - in, out, inout, const, and contracts

[Mike Parker]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Jason House wrote:

> 
> Don't know about out.  It's pretty much the same as inout, with 
> (perhaps?) some compile-time checks to make sure you don't try to read 
> the value in the function.  Seems pretty useless to me.  Much more 
> useful would be inbyref or some kind of const reference parameter.  But 
> that's supposedly in the works.

out sets the value of the parameter to its initializer. Otherwise it's 
identical to inout.