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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:16:38 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Oberon and Wirthian languages Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:16:44 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: <40rll9tj7u0sh8ir101850insir89v43jj@4ax.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.249.19.237 X-Trace: sv3-CuqUBhehrDp27nCqyZYMYC+jBQKSGSjXDZyURvi9rD/6OmQfQfGaEdcA9Tc+zdwxxMUYRviZ/TCMAO2!z7ZA5Ca31Hht2BC9fgW+i93jBLAWE3ZRukKckTcc47G6dHX4LkbOwzFfgKgxWdrTL/znVoHgemEt!3GJS2/Uh5kfpIJ3MCfgzDkZF2uY= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2224 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:186090 Date: 2014-04-25T19:16:44-04:00 List-Id: On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:55:02 -0500, "Randy Brukardt" declaimed the following: > >This is a case where the keyword will make all of the difference. If we were >using a new keyword, perhaps something like: > > A := (A replacing C => D, E => F); > >would do the trick. > I've not really been tracking this, but is a new keyword really needed? At least, I read the above to mean keep the unnamed components of 'A' during the operation. A := (C => D, E => F, others => A.others); -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/