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

>> Interesting. So programming languages are obviously chosen because
>> there is some form of augmented assinment in the language?
>> Why do people choose Visual Basic, or Fortran, or Delphi?
>
>Even in COBOL you could say "ADD A TO B."

You can already do it in Ada, too:

|Add (A, To =3D> B);

So, what's your point? ;-) That it is not "built-in"?


Vinzent.