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From: Alfred Hilscher <Spam@alfred-hilscher.de>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 19:38:05 +0200
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Stuart Palin schrieb:
> 
> Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> >
> > Frank wrote:
> > > What about the possibility of commenting several lines like /* ...... */?
> >
> > This was considered and explicitly rejected by the original Ada design
> > team as being too error-prone.
> <snip>
> 
> And then they chose '--' as the comment delimiter!  I have
> always found this rather odd as it seems to me to be a
> potential source of 'difficult to spot' typo errors.
> Consider,
> 
>    The_Result := Meaningful_Ident_1 -- Meaningful_Ident_2
>                  + Meaningful_Ident_3;


Yeah, but Ada urgently needs some operators like "++" and "--" (i++;
--i;) 

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