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From: Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com>
Subject: Re: C like op= proposal
Date: 1999/08/15
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Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
> lhs := @ + 1;                  -- C: lhs++;
> lhs := @ * 5;                  -- C: lhs *= 5;
> lhs := 1/@ + 5*(@/2 + @ ** 2); -- C doesn't do so good here either!

This is not worth the trouble of changing the language, especially considering
that one can already do this:

declare
  lhs : Some_Type renames Long_And_Complicated_Lvalue;
begin
  lhs := lhs + 1;                  -- C: lhs++;
  lhs := lhs * 5;                  -- C: lhs *= 5;
  lhs := 1/lhs + 5*(lhs/2 + lhs ** 2); -- C doesn't do so good here either!
end;

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