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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
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Subject: Ideas for Ada 200X
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Brian.Gaffney@myrealbox.com (Brian Gaffney) wrote in message news:<5e9b8c34.0306191222.6c9fd0ec@posting.google.com>...
> 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) wrote
> > Brian.Gaffney@myrealbox.com (Brian Gaffney) wrote
 
> >How could it also be a procedure that modifies one of its arguments? 
> It's called overloading:
>     procedure "+" (Left : in out Integer; Right : in Integer);
>     function  "+" (Left : Integer; Right : Integer) return Integer;
> would be perfectly reasonable (though I won't comment on its
> desirability).

It would be the goofiest "+" operator around. If I write

    i := i + j + 1

what happens to j?