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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: status of Ada STL?
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Russ wrote:

> Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote in message 
> news:<dale-B74C15.17040617062002@its-aw-news.its.rmit.edu.au>...
> > Russ wrote:
> > 
> > > Certainly "=" is better than ":=" for assignment, but if you don't
> > > think so, my proposal WOULD NOT STOP YOU FROM USING :=. LET ME REPEAT:
> > > MY PROPOSAL WOULD NOT STOP YOU FROM USING := FOR ASSINGMENT.
> > > 
> > > HELLO? AM I GETTING THROUGH TO ANYONE OUT THERE?
> > 
> > Likelihood of getting this changed?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >            0
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Dale
> 
> Likelihood of getting what "changed"? My proposal does not change the
> Ada 95 standard one iota. It only ADDS an alternative dialect. AM I
> GETTING THROUGH NOW?

PERHAPS! Actually i didn't see your original posting, and thought you
were proposing a language change. My fault for not reading it.

Anyway I still think the chances of it being accepted are 0. Ada is
a marginal (marketplace wise) langauge anyway. Anything that complicates
tool support is unlikely to be adopted. 
Dale