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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-15 10:46:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:47:41 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:48:23 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: <3F650BBE.4080107@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.109 X-Trace: sv3-6wHXfdjHmXeb+kDV5otDudTd92W3zPtdfXP/mpdCSE4bRYe1QgRBNfUPGqvep9imOh7FwahTBn6GEFr!BowtgAqJ0ofC2ZNQbaektE3l7+t0HxNQD10y/mzSard36VhWX71j8bmZSvdW6GUa3H6TqZDF0iic!Vw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42536 Date: 2003-09-15T12:48:23-05:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > knows, augmented assignment also allows more efficient vector/matrix > operations (for example) by eliminating the need for temporaries. This > was discussed in detail on a previous thread. I was surprised at how > many comp.lang.ada readers argued with me about that, but they were > and still are wrong. They'll probably argue with me here again, and > they will still be just as wrong. Alas, ignorance is never in short > supply. Interesting how you were not able to persuade any of us ignoramuses that temporaries are always needed without it nor that they are never needed with it. -- Wes Groleau Genealogical Lookups: http://groleau.freeshell.org/ref/lookups.html