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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-17 04:00:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news-xfer.cox.net!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X "left hand side" repeater. From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <3EE7CC70.E1FD3A67@adaworks.com> <3EECA772.4B662024@adaworks.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:59:22 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.75.181 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1055847631 80.195.75.181 (Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:00:31 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:00:31 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39323 Date: 2003-06-17T11:59:22+01:00 List-Id: On 17/6/03 01:30, in article bclnfn$1ga0$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu, "Chad R. Meiners" wrote: > Or how about > > [Pixel] Screen.Buffer(i) := Pixel + 1; > > where [Pixel] gives an idem name "Pixel" for Screen.Buffer(i) which can be > used (in place of its variable) until it falls out of scope at the > semi-colon. What about using 'is' to express identity? e.g.: Pixel is Screen.Buffer(i) in Pixel := Pixel + 1; It's not exactly concise, though. Nor is any 'implicit renaming' solution. -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")