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From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
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"Matthew Heaney" <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes:
> What kind of "augmented" assignment operator did you have in mind?

I'm fairly sure he means the sort of thing where instead of writing

    Item(Number).Inventory.Count := Item(Number).Inventory.Count + 1;

you could write

    Item(Number).Inventory.Count +:= 1;

This was discussed in a thread from earlier this year. Check out the
"proposal for new assignment operators" thread from June 24.

And for the record, I was in favor of augmented assignments.