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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:18:21 +0000 (UTC)
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Russ wrote:
> If you really insist that "+=" looks too much like ":=", then I think
> ":+=" or some such kludge is the next best thing, but darnit that's
> ugly.

Yes it is ugly the way you wrote it, but +:= isn't. Remember that
assignment in Ada is := so one shouldn't seperate these two signs.

> I'm trying, but I'm still having trouble seeing "+=" being confused
> with ":=".

What about /= ? The problem is that += doesn't make sense in Ada as = is
not the assignment syntax := is.

-- 
�It's probably worth pointing out that  C's pointer arithmetic  is not
 only dangerous, and a significant source of errors, but it also makes
 programs run slower.�
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