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Subject: Fun: the Ada assignment operator is an alias of the equivalence
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 02:48:29 +0200
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Hello,

A very light topic: I've just discovered the Ada / Pascal assignment  =

operator, is one of the alias of the logical-equivalence or defined-as  =

operator, that is, =E2=80=9C :=3D =E2=80=9D is an alias of =E2=80=9C =E2=
=89=A1 =E2=80=9D. As was trying to makeup my  =

mind about some ambiguities in the use which is made of =E2=80=9C =E2=89=
=A1 =E2=80=9D when I  =

landed to this Wikipedia page :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols

This is a rather good choice which was made=E2=80=A6 would have been a p=
erfect  =

choice is this was not used for side effects (let say this is just the  =

interpretation context which slightly vary :-D ).

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D  [Ep=
igrams on  =

Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale University]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [Idem]
=E2=80=9Cc++; /* this makes c bigger but returns the old value */=E2=80=9D=
 [Anonymous]