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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X "left hand side" repeater.
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I'm still not persuaded that the idea is worth
the trouble, but

  - If we go to the trouble of adding a mechanism
    to save re-typing the left hand side, it definitely
    must not have rules about some operators can use it
    and some can't.

  - It must neither be hard to read nor easy to create
    by typo.  Especially not by typo for some other legal
    construct.  An ideal that will never be completely
    reachable, but should always be attempted, is that
    a typo should fail to compile instead of changing
    the behavior.

  - How about
      {}
    Doesn't match anything in the language currently.
    Hard to type by accident.
    If you miss the shift key, you don't get something else
    legal or even that looks like a typo for something legal.
    Mnemonic for it is how it's used in the Unix 'find'