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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 07:36:31 +0000 (UTC)
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Amir Yantimirov wrote:
> 
>   X# + A;         --  X := X + A;
>   min ( X#, 0 );  --  X := min ( X, 0 );
>   X# + # * 2;     --  X := X + X * 2; (it should be **2 to have sense)
>   X#.Next;        --  X := X.Next;

OK, then I would vote a big fat NO to this as it is totally unreable and
is probably something you could find in Perl or sth similar :-)

-- 
�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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