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From: martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie)
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Subject: Re: += in ada
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Wes Groleau <groleau@freeshell.org> wrote in message news:<e4WdneVLhtPUGQmiU-KYgw@gbronline.com>...
> But Object.Method ?

Yes, it would reduce the need to "use" clauses, as the context can
be determined from the object. A nice IDE could then produce a pop-up,
list menu of available methods that can be called (similar to what
Rational Apex or AdaGIDE do).

It is relatively simple for compilers to implement too (~130 sloc
for GNAT apparently).

Here a link to the current proposal (by Tucker himself! :)
http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00252.TXT?rev=1.7