Re: efficient vector/matrix operations in Ada

["Gautier Write-only-address" <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>]

>What's the difference between:
>
>    A += B;
>
>and
>
>    Add (Target => A,
>         Addend => B);
>
>(except for a few extra characters)?

well... "Add (Target =>,Addend =>)"'length / "+="'length
is not very small, and the 2nd formula seems to me less
readable. I find this idea of Russ a seriously good improvement:
besides ":=", one would have "+=" and "-=", with a programmable

  procedure "+=" (target: in out the_type; addend: in the_type);

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