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<p>input/output parameters (<code>OUT</code> and <code>IN OUT</code>) are by default passed by value and the result copied back, but can be passed by reference by using the <code>NOCOPY</code> <a href="page.php?w=compiler">compiler</a> hint.</p>

<p>A syntactically similar construction to output parameters is to assign the <a href="page.php?w=return_value">return value</a> to a variable with the same name as the function. This is found in <a href="page.php?w=Pascal_%28programming_language%29">Pascal</a> and <a href="page.php?w=Fortran_66">Fortran 66</a></p><p>
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