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,d2f0af5e440b367f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-25 09:42:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EF9CD5F.6030608@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:27:11 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1056558431 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:27:11 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:27:11 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39731 Date: 2003-06-25T12:27:11-04:00 List-Id: 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. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg