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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95
Date: 1999/04/27
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In article <7g4ae3$hjh2@ftp.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.no> writes:

> While you are at it, why not get us [ and ] for arrays (in addtion to, not
> instead of parenthesises). I really want to write a[4] := 3 instead of a(4) :=
> 3.

No !  Making it easy for writers is _not_ the priority for Ada.
The priority is making it easy for readers.  As I see it, that
_not_ involve adding superfluous spellings of the same thing.

Larry Kilgallen