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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: 13 Jun 2003 10:41:10 -0700
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Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote in message news:<bcbu9j$hgu5j$2@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de>...
> Russ wrote:
> 
> > Anyone who can't
> >readily tell += from := needs a stronger pair of reading glasses.
>  
> :) Perhaps.
> 
> 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.

+= tells me *instantly* what it does. I'm getting the impression that
the good folks here on comp.lang.ada are getting up in years. Then
again, I'm no spring chicken myself, but I do have a good pair of
reading glasses, and the printers I use cost more than $39.