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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Oberon and Wirthian languages
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:31:30 +0300
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On 14-04-26 02:16 , Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:55:02 -0500, "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
> declaimed the following:
> 
>>
>> This is a case where the keyword will make all of the difference. If we were 
>> using a new keyword, perhaps something like:
>>
>>   A := (A replacing C => D, E => F);
>>
>> would do the trick.
>>
> 	I've not really been tracking this, but is a new keyword really needed?
> 	At least, I read the above to mean keep the unnamed components of 'A'
> during the operation.
> 
> 	A := (C => D, E => F, others => A.others);

Of the forms with "others", I like that one best. But I would still
prefer a form in which the initial value (A) comes first, and the
component-wise changes after, as in the "replacing" form.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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