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In article <Pine.BSF.4.40.0111300447310.89131-100000@bpr.best.vwh.net>, Brian
Rogoff says...
>One of the things that annoys me about Ada is the fact that there is a lot
>of nice notation that I, the programmer, can't change. It would be nice if
>there were a more generalized notion of 'First and 'Last, since that's
>what Ada programmers would like to use in an Ada "STL". If you just map
>the STL concepts onto Ada directly, using, say, Incr, Decr, Pred, Succ
>Get_Value, Set_Value, etc., instead of the C shorthand, Ada programmers
>will still complain that the resulting library doesn't "look like" Ada.
>Sorry, nothing can be done about that.

I like that idea. Hopefully redefining of more attributes will make its way into
Ada 20XX. I'd add 'Image to the list.

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