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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 20:01:19 +0000 (UTC)
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
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> > Approach 2:
> >   declare
> >      x : XT renames complex.express(ion);
> >   begin
> >      x := x + 1;
> >   end;
>
> Yuck again.  Five lines of code to do an increment?!
>
> I'm not complaining about typing it in, I'm complaining about having to
> read a whole lot of code that doesn't do much of anything.

And doesn't work if there is a variant record (I think...)