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: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-06 15:47:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!transit.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!amsnews01.chello.com!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-text.cableinet.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Subject: Re: += in ada From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <3F7316F7.219F@mail.ru> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:47:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.41.184.118 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-text.cableinet.net 1065480432 82.41.184.118 (Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:47:12 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:47:12 BST Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:338 Date: 2003-10-06T22:47:12+00:00 List-Id: On 6/10/03 21:21, in article bebbba07.0310061221.2af714b3@posting.google.com, "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote: >> := for assignment >> :+ for increment > > No kidding! That's what I suggested several weeks (months?) ago. So :+ > has a track record. I guess I'm not as far out as I thought I might be. The :? formation is inconsistent with := for Boolean operands. The only way to avoid that is by arbitrarily restricting either the operators that have update forms, or the mutable types that have update operators. (I pointed this out to you last time.) -- Bill