From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d2f0af5e440b367f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-25 10:46:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-043-071.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:49:23 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-043-071.arcor-ip.net (145.254.43.71) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1056563198 28834301 145.254.43.71 (16 [77047]) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39733 Date: 2003-06-25T19:49:23+02:00 List-Id: Lutz Donnerhacke wrote: > * Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> Provided 1.& 2. one could just enlarge the set of lexical elements and >> let the programmer to choose what he/she wants. I would like to see >> "<+>", "[+]", "(+)", "+:=", "<+>:=" etc added, but is that worth the >> efforts? > > No. The "idem" proposal is worth the efforts. Probably yes, but "idem" is rather an independent thing. It does not solve neither a problem of in-place operations (including constructors), nor a problem user-defined assignment(s) [for all types.] -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de