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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Syntax question
Date: 20 Mar 1995 19:51:37 -0500
Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Date: 1995-03-20T19:51:37-05:00
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Well it shows how different people react to things, I really HATED the
:= and :=: trick, I thought they were typical of the kind of 
"fiddle-with-special-characters" games that ruin the syntax of many
languages, and I think it is a good thing they were dropped. In practice
I think that proper choice of parameter names and use of named notation
meets the needs just find.