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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
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Subject: Re: Clause "with and use"
Date: 6 Nov 2003 10:52:18 -0800
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Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote in message news:<bod0mk$1cg6bn$2@ID-175126.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> Russ wrote:
> 
> >Oh, so x += 2 is "unreadable", eh?
> 
> <beatles>Yes, it is.</beatles>
> 
> >Do you have any idea what that says
> >about your intelligence?
> 
> Referring to some other posting from you that follow the same style,
> I'd say: "Yes, I am an idiot." Satisfied?
> 
> >You might as well just blurt out, "I'm an idiot".
> 
> Well, and after all I've read from you, you might as well say, "All
> Ada programmers are idiots". Be it so. A lot of people have given you
> a lot of reasons why this "+=" operators will *not* make it into the
> language.

If you honestly find "+=" to be "unreadable," then I'd say that, yes,
you are indeed an idiot. I certainly would never hire a programmer who
has to grapple with the meaning of "+=". For Pete's sake, I have real
work to do. Would you hire such a person? If so, I can't imagine how
you could get any significant amount of work done. Go ask anyone who
hires programmers, and ask them if they would hire anyone who
struggles with the meaning of "+=". Having said that, I don't think
for a second that anyone here *really* has trouble understanding "+=".
That means that I don't really consider you idiots, I am just baffled
as to why you insist on portraying yourselves as such. Now, if you
quote me on this, please keep this entire paragraph intact.