Re: proposal for new assignment operators

[18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)]

Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message news:<bdhh5e$ciq$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>...
> 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.

That would be acceptable to me. I think two characters is preferable
to three, but that is obviously only a cosmetic issue. The important
thing is to get these operators in Ada. Their usefulness has been
proven in at least the five most popular general-purpose programming
languages around today.