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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 12:27:37 +0300
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Date: 2014-04-26T12:27:37+03:00
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On 14-04-26 10:23 , Simon Wright wrote:
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> 
>> 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'd find
> 
>    A := (A with C => D, E => F);
> 
> quite straightforward.

Yes, but that looks exactly like an extension aggregate, where the
ancestor object A is extended to a derived type with the new components
C and E. Maybe the compiler would not be confused, but I would be. I
think that an "updating" partial aggregate should be syntactically
distinct from an extension aggregate.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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