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From: "Pat Rogers" <progers@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/04/30
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Date: 1997-04-30T00:00:00+00:00
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[snip]


>    A better Ada statement of swap would be:
> 
>    procedure Swap (A,B : in out Integer) is
>      Temp : Integer := A;
>    begin A := B; B := Temp; end Swap;
> 
>    I'm not going to count characters, but that feels less verbose than
> the C not more.

How about the even shorter:

	procedure Swap is new Exchange( Integer );

 :) :) :)