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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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 16:12:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators Date: 27 Jun 2003 16:12:04 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3EF9CD5F.6030608@cogeco.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1056755524 3288 127.0.0.1 (27 Jun 2003 23:12:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jun 2003 23:12:04 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39853 Date: 2003-06-27T23:12:04+00:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote in message news:... > 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.