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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: += in ada
Date: 21 Oct 2003 10:30:40 -0700
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Ross Higson <rosshigsonREMOVE_ME@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f937e27$0$28121$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
> > 
> > Take a look some time at comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.java.*,
> > comp.lang.perl, and comp.lang.python. You might just find that each of
> > them gets more posts in a day than comp.lang.ada gets in a month. Is
> > that *because* they each have "+="? I don't know, but you cannot deny
> > the correlation between "+=" and popularity. (Of course, they all use
> > "=" rather than ":=" for assignment, which may also be a huge factor,
> > but that's another story.)
> 
> So presumably adding a C/C++ type assignment operator to Ada is going to 
> be your next great crusade ?. Wonderful - then all Ada programmers could 
> enjoy one of my favorite C/C++ bugs:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> main () {
> int a = 0;
> if (a = 0)
>     printf ("Russ has a point\n");
> else
>     printf ("Russ is an idiot\n");
> }

Someone please tell me: What is the proper response when you are
kicked in the balls by a three-foot dwarf?