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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-16 20:03:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:03:19 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:03:46 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: += in ada References: <3F7316F7.219F@mail.ru> <49cbf610.0310070205.2937e71a@posting.google.com> <49cbf610.0310101231.2358762a@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.29 X-Trace: sv3-pkIE3MwyRlaSP1u6yAlh8mSRZe0ROA1GcZBsImlQhP1/R3s/75h9cqJnX1dy6gGQq1oQoLDIrV9Cc4f!Pm2WIT6/iqNuT9Il7xW2jPV1/zqF5P0/63SDg80XCDzb+G5jko3Xb5my60DW0v/W9flxVtMoSlfv X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1046 Date: 2003-10-16T22:03:46-05:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > Suppose you were out shopping for a new car. Would you say to > yourself, "I will only consider cars that are equipped with visors." > Of course not, because you expect all cars to have visors by now. Poor analogy. "+=" isn't like visors. It's more like power windows. Some people think they are indispensable; others think, "Nice, but I'd never pay extra for them." Some even say, "Not on your life! That's a tenth of a mile less per gallon!" -- Wes Groleau "Grant me the serenity to accept those I cannot change; the courage to change the one I can; and the wisdom to know it's me." -- unknown