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 15:38:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.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 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 23:36:59 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.75.181 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1055889488 80.195.75.181 (Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:38:08 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:38:08 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39369 Date: 2003-06-17T23:36:59+01:00 List-Id: On 17/6/03 23:20, in article bebbba07.0306171420.2a6cb3d0@posting.google.com, "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote: > An interesting idea just popped into my head. We've considered "+=" > and "+:=", but what about ":+"? Check it out: > > count :+ 1 > A :+ B > var :/ 2.0 > > Simple, clear, only two characters, and no conflict with "/=". What do > you think? Consider: a, b : Boolean; -- a := a = b; a := b; -- ?? What would that mean? -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")