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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:21:11 +0000 (UTC)
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Russ wrote:
> But Mr. Duff says that "+=" is just "syntactic sugar" for "Add(A,B),"
> and Mr. Eachus says "+=" needs a temporary to preserve A in the case
> of a Constraint_Error. So, as far as efficiency is concerned, we're
> screwed either way, aren't we?

No because "Add(A,B)" wouldn't need a temporary.

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