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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 21:47:39 +0000 (UTC)
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> Very early in the design of Ada, there was a proposal to add a unary 
> operator symbol specifically for the purpose converting between types. 
> Ichbiah and his team rejected the proposal as "+" already exists and has no 
> other useful purpose. They said that "+" should be used for this purpose.

I don't get the idea of using plus as a conversion operator, I'd this so e
mathematical notation I've not come across?

Luke