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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:23:25 +0200
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Russ wrote:

>Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote in message =
news:<bcbu9j$hgu5j$2@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de>...
>> Russ wrote:
>>=20
>> > Anyone who can't
>> >readily tell +=3D from :=3D needs a stronger pair of reading glasses.
>> =20
>> :) Perhaps.
>>=20
>> Perhaps I'd need a better printer. Or perhaps I just need a clearer
>> construct that tells me the first millisecond I look at it what it
>> does.
>
>+=3D tells me *instantly* what it does.

Sure it does, if you see it as it.

But I'm human[0] and brain is a bitch[1], so it is quite common that
you *see* an assignment when you *expect* to see one instead of seeing
what is *really* going on. So you almost always have to look twice.

>I'm getting the impression that
>the good folks here on comp.lang.ada are getting up in years.

;)

In another group I was just told, I were still almost half a kid. Just
to make this clear, I'm not yet thirty but already my brain is bugging
me sometimes.


Vinzent.

[0] The login screen today said: "You're working under a slight
handicap.  You happen to be human." - Fits perfectly, I think.
[1] At least mine is.

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