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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fe928bde93f0c2f4 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Fun: the Ada assignment operator is an alias of the equivalence operator Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 10:02:51 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 98Z2l/wGp5yoVSFMgm2+VQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:20500 Date: 2011-05-28T10:02:51+02:00 List-Id: Le Sat, 28 May 2011 09:25:40 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > I didn't see that usage of ":=3D" ("Defined-as" is not same "equivalen= t"). > > For "defined-as" I saw "=3D" with a small triangle or word "def" under= it. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf agree with you Says 225C =E2=89=9C DELTA EQUAL TO =3D equiangular =3D equal to by defini= tion 2261 =E2=89=A1 IDENTICAL TO (a bit ambiguous) > Assignment is not a logical operation, variables are not logical > predicates. Nor "defined-as" is ;) ":=3D" would be OK for constant, makes Ada looks a bit more functional := p -- = =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]