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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Clause "with and use"
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Russ wrote:

>Oh, so x +=3D 2 is "unreadable", eh?

<beatles>Yes, it is.</beatles>

>Do you have any idea what that says
>about your intelligence?

Referring to some other posting from you that follow the same style,
I'd say: "Yes, I am an idiot." Satisfied?

>You might as well just blurt out, "I'm an idiot".

Well, and after all I've read from you, you might as well say, "All
Ada programmers are idiots". Be it so. A lot of people have given you
a lot of reasons why this "+=3D" operators will *not* make it into the
language.


Vinzent.