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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:22:44 +0000 (UTC)
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Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> 
> No, it's a too limited approach. Much more flexible is the suggestion to use
> a special symbol to reference the LHS on the RHS expression.
> 
> So you can write:
>   A(i).dispaching_call(get_next_position) := <> - y / (2*<>);

Ok, but this is not for optimisation only for removing the side effect
of get_next_position increasing? Or am I misunderstanding you?

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/