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From: Vinzent Hoefler <JeLlyFish.software@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: status of Ada STL?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:36:21 +0200
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18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) wrote:

>don't say that because it "looks like C". I say that because it is a
>minimal form (the x need not be repeated, which can be noticibly
>simpler in a case like,
>
>my_very_descriptive_variable += 1
>
>Or do you prefer 
>
>my_very_descriptive_variable := my_very_descriptive_variable + 1;

What about polish notation?

|(my_very_descriptive_variable, 1) +

Still looks more logical to me. It would be easy to make it read

|Add (my_very_descriptive_variable, 1);

in Ada then. :-) And BTW: shouldn't

|"+"(my_very_descriptive_variable, 1)

work already?


Vinzent.