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Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators
Date: 27 Jun 2003 18:21:56 -0500
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In article <bebbba07.0306271512.6cdd5f79@posting.google.com>, 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes:

> That would be acceptable to me. I think two characters is preferable
> to three, but that is obviously only a cosmetic issue. The important
> thing is to get these operators in Ada. Their usefulness has been
> proven in at least the five most popular general-purpose programming
> languages around today.

As has the usefulness of pointer arithmetic, null terminated string,
etc.  People who want those features should use those languages.