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: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-02 14:28:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Sender: kst@stalkings Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: += in ada References: <3F7316F7.219F@mail.ru> <17cd177c.0310010606.52da88f3@posting.google.com> From: Keith Thompson Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:28:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.30.129.187 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1065130080 24.30.129.187 (Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:28:00 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:28:00 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:134 Date: 2003-10-02T21:28:00+00:00 List-Id: Lutz Donnerhacke writes: > * Preben Randhol wrote: > > On 2003-10-02, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote: > >> The "idem"-Idiom would be much better. > >> X(b(i).all+7) := idem + 2/idem; > > > > The problem I have with idem is that it looks like just another > > variable. > > I insist on the semantical meaning, but not on the syntactical term. Didn't somebody once suggest "@" for this? X(b(i).all+7) := @ + 2/@; There might be some concern about systems that don't have "@" in their character sets, but they can't send e-mail so we don't have to worry about their complaints. 8-)} -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> Schroedinger does Shakespeare: "To be *and* not to be"