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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 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: 2003-06-27 06:34:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:34:38 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <3EF9CD5F.6030608@cogeco.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1056720878 12890 134.91.1.15 (27 Jun 2003 13:34:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:34:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/831)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39812 Date: 2003-06-27T13:34:38+00:00 List-Id: Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote: : : I'd like to know how count :+ 1 is any more obfuscated than count := : count + 1. Anyway, it could be the label count:, followed by +1, among other things. I'd find it much more plausible, that if there were going to be talk about augmented assignment, then it will be assignemt, augmented. That is ":=" with "+" as "+:=", as is the case in some other programming languages that seem to have been of some significance during the developement of Ada 95, including SETL2, and possibly Icon. This is an opportunity to read a bit about augmented assignment, I think. : (+=) It looks simpler to me. But does it blend well with the rest of Ada syntax?