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: 2003-06-28 11:51:13 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: 28 Jun 2003 11:51:13 -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 1056826273 32123 127.0.0.1 (28 Jun 2003 18:51:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jun 2003 18:51:13 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39876 Date: 2003-06-28T18:51:13+00:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:... > In article , 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.