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"Vinzent Hoefler" <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote in message
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[snip]
>
>|count += 1
>
>could easily be parsed as
>
>|count := 1
>
>on the first glance. You have to look harder to see that this is *not*
>an assignment.

Yeah, but after actually spending a lot of time reading code, I've never had
a problem distinguishing '=' from '+=', but I have had problems
distinguishing:

shiftTally(shift)(dayOfWeek(month).tallyIndex)
 .sortTally(s).nbRejects :=
shiftTally(shift)(dayOfWeekmonth).tallyIndex).sortTally(s).nbRejects + 1;

from

shiftTally(shift)(dayOfWeek(month).tallyIndex)
 .sortTally(s).nbRejects :=
shiftTally(shift)(dayOfWeekmonth).tallyIndex).sortTally(t).nbRejects + 1;

You might argue that the code was not written well.  I don't know about you
but I don't generally re-write blocks of code I'm maintaining just because
it doesn't look nice.

[snip]
>
>And you probably heard about: Ada is for ease of reading, not writing.
>

In my opinion the benefit of += has nothing to do with efficiency or ease in
writing.  It's all about readability.

I think we've about discussed this one out.

Steve
(The Duck)

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> Vinzent.
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