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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:00:34 +0200
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Russ wrote:

>I think those get used quite a bit too, though probably not as much as
>+=3D and -=3D.
>
>That applies to C++, Java, Python, and Perl -- four of the most
>popular languages around.
[...]
>
>As for the other more obscure assignment operators, >>=3D, <<=3D, &=3D, =
^=3D,
>and |=3D, they are unnecessary.

Oh? Why that? Why should the same crap for bitwise operators be
unnecessary when it is good enough for arithmetic operators?

All or nothing, I'd say. :->


Vinzent.