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Subject: Re: Inferring array index type from array object
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On 29/06/2010 02:49, in article
73ee19f6-1591-47ba-9dd0-3932935422f7@v13g2000prn.googlegroups.com, "Adam
Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote:

> On Jun 28, 3:18�pm, Niklas Holsti <niklas.hol...@tidorum.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> "Convenience" is not always opposed to "the Ada way". Ada strives to be
>> readable and correctness-prone (that is, the opposite of error-prone). I
>> thnk that there are features that could be added to Ada that favour
>> these goals but also increase convenience.
>> 
>> I think Ada could well support an add-and-assign syntax, for example in
>> the syntax X +:= 1
> 
> see http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ai05s/ai05-0187-1.txt?rev=1.6

Sigh!

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