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,d2f0af5e440b367f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-25 22:54:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!news-hub.siol.net!news.siol.net!not-for-mail From: Karel Miklav User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:54:40 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.77.153.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@siol.net X-Trace: news.siol.net 1056606866 193.77.153.232 (Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:54:26 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:54:26 MET DST Organization: Slovenija OnLine - SiOL Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39760 Date: 2003-06-26T07:54:40+02:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > It's nice to find such bright, open-minded people here on > comp.lang.ada! Listen Russ, you cannot blame people like this. What if someone starts the campaign to get some stuff from Perl into Ada tomorrow, are we all supposed to say: no problem, how else can we serve you? > Oh, now I see what you mean. You have an interesting point, but I > don't think its particularly compelling. The ":=" symbol obviously > should not be redefined for this special case. So the answer to your > question is that a := b would assign b to a. No special cases please, I'm sic++k of them already. > It wouldn't be useful anyway. After all, none of the languages with > "+=" have "===", do they? Yes, they do: http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.3/reference/ops.html#1060974 Regards, Karel Miklav