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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
From: Bill Findlay <yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk>
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On 16/6/03 22:13, in article
slrnbescn7.298.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no, "Preben Randhol"
<randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:

> Well there are discussions in criss cross here :-) Some want += for
> speed-up reasons, some want it for readability and some want a thing
> like idem to have the compiler unroll complicated functions if I
> understand correctly.

I want all the above.  8-)
"idem" delivers speed, readability and control over evaluation.

> At any rate I wouldn't mind seing Age'Inc (1); in addition to idem as it
> would help those who have complicated expressions they only need to
> increase by some number.

What about Age'Dec(1); ?

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