From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d2f0af5e440b367f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-26 11:11:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny03.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: <2HGKa.61$oF.18@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:11:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.154.221.143 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1056651070 141.154.221.143 (Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:11:10 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:11:10 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39781 Date: 2003-06-26T18:11:10+00:00 List-Id: "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:bebbba07.0306251806.5789a018@posting.google.com... > It's not really an incompatibility; its just that "=" doesn't happen > to be one of the operators that should have an in-place counterpart. > It wouldn't be useful anyway. After all, none of the languages with > "+=" have "===", do they? Icon has a "===" operator, and therefore Icon also permits a "===:=" operator (although this is fairly useless).