From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-15 18:30:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!msunews!not-for-mail From: "Chad R. Meiners" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: += in ada Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:25:50 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: References: <3F7316F7.219F@mail.ru> <49cbf610.0310070205.2937e71a@posting.google.com> <49cbf610.0310101231.2358762a@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: arctic.cse.msu.edu X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:934 Date: 2003-10-15T21:25:50-04:00 List-Id: "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:bebbba07.0310141000.681da5c@posting.google.com... > The only rational reply I have received so far is that augmented > assignment operators are too much effort to implement. Well, they > obviously weren't too much effort for C, C++, Java, Perl, and Python. > It's really too bad that Ada is so strapped for support. That obvously > doesn't bode well for the future of Ada. Could you please explain why a generic package that defines augmented assignment procedures for a numeric type (Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide) is not sufficient? I must admit that I have never felt the need for augmented assignment, though. -CRM