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From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch)
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: 19 Jun 2003 11:37:33 -0700
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>All the proposals so far have their problems:
>
>   idem (or any new reserved word)  but: a new reserved word
>   all                              but: could be a typo for "p.all"
>   <>                               but: consider "<> < <>+1"
>   &                                but: consider "& & &"
>   @ (or # or ? or $ or %)          but: wrong associations?

In addition to yesterday's "~name or ~~" proposal, here is yet another one:
use triplet (*) - asterisk inside round brackets. This compound symbol is
quite different from others, and nicely associates with "focus".

  X := (*) + A;

  X := (*) + (*);



Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia