Indeed, since Ada implements software engineering isn't => the operation for "Becomes" ThisVariable => "Ada 95" to say ThisVariable becomes "Ada 95" -- St�phane Richard "Ada World" Webmaster http://www.adaworld.com "Preben Randhol" wrote in message news:slrnbpcecq.1pa.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no... > On 2003-10-22, Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote: > > By the way, am I the only one who noticed that the arrow is backward > > for this notation? The actual argument is getting put into the formal > > argument, not vice versa. > > > Set (Name => "Ada 95"); > > I read it as: Set Name's value as "Ada 95". > > -- > "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming > language."