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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Equality operator overloading in ADA 83
Date: 1997/04/23
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Date: 1997-04-23T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <335E0A26.16D0@elca-matrix.ch>,
Mats Weber  <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch> wrote:
>Sure. Maybe a good optimizer can do something here and detect that the
>beginning of the string does not change.

I'd like to see a compiler do that, but I've never seen one do it.
Do any?

I mean, to append a single character to this array, I just want to
increment the discrim, and stick the character in the array.  But Ada
rules require me to do an assignment on the whole thing.

- Bob