From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a4d2751f9487bd38 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-08 13:50:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Inc (was: Real data for a change in the assignment operators and Date: 8 Jul 2003 13:50:52 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3F04F778.5090305@attbi.com> <3F09E6B8.FB19B956@somewhere.nil> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.152.82.47 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1057697453 20840 127.0.0.1 (8 Jul 2003 20:50:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jul 2003 20:50:53 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40132 Date: 2003-07-08T20:50:53+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: >In article <3F09E6B8.FB19B956@somewhere.nil>, Gautier Write-only writes: >>> >I don't expect this to end the discussion on these two issues, but I >>> >hope it helps. The three calls in a row to Inc are much clearer than: >>> > >>> > Total := Total + 1; >>> > Single(Data(I)) := Single(Data(I)) + 1; >>> > Digraphs(Previous,Data(I))) := Digraphs(Previous,Data(I)) + 1; >> >> Alexander Kopilovitch: >> >>> I think Pascal language was aware of that even before Ada emerged. >> >> You certainly think to Borland Pascal. Yes, it was a good idea from them. >> (Standard) Pascal has only "Succ" and "Pred". > >I was under the impression the reference was to the Pascal WITH keyword, No, I meant Inc (otherwise why I created new Subject line with this name? -:) (And yes, I thought about Borland Pascal... original Pascal brought too much sense to the famous phrase: "real programmers don't use Pascal" -:) Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia