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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? [although this thread changed
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:05:10 +0200
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Russ wrote:

>Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote in message =
news:<bkvhb0$6ih3f$1@ID-175126.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>
>Let me pose a question. Suppose you were picking apples and putting
>them into a bushel basket. Each time you pick an apple, would you dump
>the contents of the basket on the ground, add the new apple, then
>reload them all into the basket? Or would you just add the new apple
>to the basket?

The latter. But I wouldn't expect to let the basket operate on the
single apple like

|Basket +=3D 1;

would apply, I would do something like:

|Put (Into =3D> Basket, What =3D> Apple, Amount =3D> 1);

;-P

As I said, I consider the procedural version a good compromise.


Vinzent.