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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: C like op= proposal
Date: 1999/08/19
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In article <37BBA5E1.13FBF70E@kvaerner.com>,
  "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote:
> Keith Thompson wrote:
> > I'm well aware that there's little or no chance of this being added
to
> > some future version of Ada (which makes this whole thread somewhat
> > off-topic, I suppose).  I'm just saying that I like the idea, and I
> > wouldn't mind seeing it in some future language.
>
> So would I. I don't care much for [+-*/]= as I too think it is ugly.
> However using @ or a functional equivalent seems to be worthwhile. It
> may make some code much more readable than it would otherwise be. I

I personally don't agree that swapping perfectly good identifiers for
line noise characters will make things more readable. But if you do feel
that way, it would be trivial to implement it in a precompiler.

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