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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 2003-10-16 01:58:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!adsl-213-200-246-247.cybernet.CH!not-for-mail From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: += in ada Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:57:47 +0200 Organization: JeLlyFish software Message-ID: References: <3F7316F7.219F@mail.ru> <17cd177c.0310010606.52da88f3@posting.google.com> <3F8BC74F.2CFBFF37@0.0> Reply-To: v.hoefler@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-213-200-246-247.cybernet.ch (213.200.246.247) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1066294732 25669546 213.200.246.247 (16 [175126]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:960 Date: 2003-10-16T10:57:47+02:00 List-Id: Stuart Palin wrote: >Treating them as operator functions in their own right seems >to create difficulties in defining a workable specification >for the function It wouldn't even be a function. Functions in Ada can only have parameters of mode "in". A ":+=3D" would have one of "in out". >I suppose the other option would be to treat them not as >operators but as "assignments" (and so not support renaming >on post-fix notation) Well, AFAICS overloading/renaming raises another issue. I tried to explain that in . Vinzent.