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From: Alfred Hilscher <Spam@alfred-hilscher.de>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:40:43 +0200
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Date: 2003-05-29T14:40:43+02:00
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Sorry, it should be a joke (the --i, because the original poster
suggested a new "comment").

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" schrieb:
> 
> Alfred Hilscher wrote:
> > 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;)
> 
> I disagree that it is "urgent". What is your case for urgency here?
>  From what I have seen, most people that promote the idea, are just
> "typing challenged" (yes I know ++i is different than i++).
> 
> Consider this: the Ada95 language is already large and complex. Is
> there really enough justification for complicating it with ++i/i++
> issues?  Not to meantion that --i may appear like a comment?!?!? ;-)
> 
> --
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg