Re: proposal for new assignment operators

[18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)]

Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<pMTkgtGAiZ3l@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> In article <bebbba07.0306271512.6cdd5f79@posting.google.com>, 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> As has the usefulness of pointer arithmetic, null terminated string,
> etc.  People who want those features should use those languages.

Java, Perl, and Python do not have pointer arithmetic, and C++ took a
step away from it with the STL. It's still there in C++, but STL
reduces the need to use it explicitly. A similar statement could be
made for null-terminated strings, I think, but certainly not for
augmented assignment.