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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Side-effect arithmetic again [was: Ada ... in embedded systems]
Date: 1996/03/18
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Date: 1996-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Direction_Type'Increment (Direction);

does not seem very inspiring

Direction := Direction + 1;

seems OK. Yes, I know yu can find complex cases, but in well written
code, complex stuff is minimized anyway, and for example nearly all
incmrenets in the GNAT source are of simple variables.