Re: proposal for new assignment operators

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> I would prefer the Icon notation, where the operator prefixes the ":="
> assignment symbol, e.g.
> 
>     first +:= margin
>     last -:= margin
> 
>     # "||" is the Icon catenation operation, so this adds suffix to the end
> of word
>     word ||:= suffix
> 
> This fits in rather well with Ada, and poses no problem with division; "/:="
> does in-place division, "/=" tests for inequality.

For my $0.02 Canadian, all of this fuss is fuss with very
little payback. In fact, all it will succeed in doing if
it gets accepted (which it won't AFAICS), is obfuscating
Ada code a bit more than it used to be. That is one of many
reasons it will never get accepted.

People keep claiming that it is not proposed for ease of typing, but
if you read through the thread, the theme that keeps emerging is
that it makes the code easier to write (vs easier to read). Just
give it up folks. It ain't goin' to be. If my input is included,
it will be against any such proposal.

There is simply no need for it.

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg