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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Inferring array index type from array object
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On Jun 28, 3:18=A0pm, Niklas Holsti <niklas.hol...@tidorum.invalid>
wrote:

> "Convenience" is not always opposed to "the Ada way". Ada strives to be
> readable and correctness-prone (that is, the opposite of error-prone). I
> thnk that there are features that could be added to Ada that favour
> these goals but also increase convenience.
>
> I think Ada could well support an add-and-assign syntax, for example in
> the syntax X +:=3D 1

see http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ai05s/ai05-0187-1.txt?rev=3D=
1.6

                         -- Adam