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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Successor Language
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 13:57:26 +0100
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Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> wrote:

>> We should adopt the common C shorthand operators, -=, +=, etc.
> What's the problem with @ ? It's more elegant and versatile.
> 

The proposal is to use +:=, -:=, etc which is ok but a little weird. The
other proposal is to use @ as the lhs shorthand.