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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: += in ada
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Russ wrote:

>This is precisely the attitude that bothers me. I spend all kinds of
>time carefully explaining why the five most popular programming
>languages all have augmented assignment, and all I get back is, "I
>don't like it!", " I don't want it!", and "Even beginners don't want
>it!" No rational reason given.

Oh sorry. I didn't notice that "readability" is not rational enough to
be an argument.

So let's add a little bit more irrationality? Here it goes: When I am
reading source, I read it left to right, top to bottom like a book.
Infixed augmented operator break that reading flow and that's why *I*
don't want them.

Not to mention the readability if you have the source on paper which
has all the rings from the coffee cup on it. :->


Vinzent.