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From: "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
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"Wesley Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message
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>
> > It would be the goofiest "+" operator around. If I write
> >
> >     i := i + j + 1
> >
> > what happens to j?
>
> IFF we allow "+" to be a procedure as well as a function,
> then, as a procedure, it can not return a result [1].
> Therefore, neither "+" above could be the procedure.
>
> However, if we allow "+" to be a procedure, and allow
> it to be called with the syntax
>
>     i + 1;
>
> then we would have to decide whether to allow
>
>     i + j + 1;
>
> and if so, how to define its meaning.

This would seem to be an OUTSTANDING argument AGAINST the whole idea.

> [1] Remember, in Ada, (unlike C), you cannot change
>      a function to a procedure by discarding its result.