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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, FREEMAIL_REPLY 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: 2003-10-17 10:25:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!msunews!not-for-mail From: "Chad R. Meiners" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: += in ada Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:20:46 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: References: <3F7316F7.219F@mail.ru> <17cd177c.0310010606.52da88f3@posting.google.com> <3F8BC74F.2CFBFF37@0.0> <1066312000.671303@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1066400493.692750@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F90128B.3050805@comcast.net> 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:1091 Date: 2003-10-17T13:20:46-04:00 List-Id: "Robert I. Eachus" wrote in message news:3F90128B.3050805@comcast.net... > I am certainly not going to suggest adding Inc to Ada 200X. IMHO, there > are many more important additions to the language, and not all of them > will make it in due to time and resource limitations. But if you think > that Inc (or ++) is important, go for it. But as for += and its > brothers, that would just be wasting everyone's time. So, instead, how about a set of generic packages that provide the functionality, which can be with'd and use'd? Such a set of packages could be placed on a publicly available server and evolve into a de facto standard. -CRM