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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:44:12 -0500
From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: In-Out Parameters for functions
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
> But Ada does not have that philosophy, so that cannot be the reason
> to maintain the feature. When "+" is a user-defined subprogram, its
> operands are always passed in the order written; a + b is always
> invoked as "+"(a, b) and never as "+"(b, a).

And I should add that the same holds true for associativity. If you
write a + b + c and "+" is user-defined, the call is "+"("+"(a, b), c)
and never "+"(a, "+"(b, c)). The freedom to use other associations is
only for predefined operators.