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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f51e93dacd9c7fca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-16 18:59:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0D4274.6C5E02F9@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: status of Ada STL? References: <3d0ce154_5@news.bluewin.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 01:59:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.8.206 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1024279170 63.184.8.206 (Sun, 16 Jun 2002 18:59:30 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 18:59:30 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26108 Date: 2002-06-17T01:59:30+00:00 List-Id: Vinzent Hoefler wrote: > > Personally I like ":=" much more than "=". Although in Ada there would > be no possibility to do "if (a = b)" vs. "if (a == b)" like in C, I > like the slightly mathematically approach of saying "this gives" > instead of "this is equal" for assignments definitely more. Certainly ":=" is better than "=" for assignment, and replacing "=" with "==" for equality is just stupid. But I've thought for decades that the assignment symbol should not contain the "=" character at all. "<-" would probably be good. -- Jeff Carter "Sons of a silly person." Monty Python & the Holy Grail