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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
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"Steve" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<xIeBa.1017346$3D1.597085@sccrnsc01>...
> "Alfred Hilscher" <Spam@alfred-hilscher.de> wrote in message
> news:3ED4F3FD.A0EF7079@alfred-hilscher.de...
> >
> >
>  [snip]
> >
> >
> > Yeah, but Ada urgently needs some operators like "++" and "--" (i++;
> > --i;)
> 
> Personally I don't see much value in the "++" and "--" operators... but I do
> like the +=, -=, *=, /= operators.

Bingo! Please forget about ++ and --.

> Occasionally I run into code that looks something like:
> 
> production_total( total_class ).shift( shift_index ) :=
>   production_total( total_class ).shift( shift_index ) + count;
> 
> That would read a lot cleaner as:
> 
>   production_total( total_class ).shift( shift_index ) += count;

Couldn't have said it better myself.

And let's not forget that +=, -=, etc. also allow for more efficient
in-place vector/matrix operations because they avoid the need for a
temporary. If you don't understand this, that's OK, but please don't
argue with me because you will be wrong.