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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:06:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
> For all I care, such operators could be !@#$^#$%^#$%, I would not
> understand them any less.  Please do not assume that we all came

But wouldn't it be more fun to write and read Ada programs if we could
have:

   :-)
   :-(
   :-/
   :-P
  >:-{
  <:-)

and similar smilies as syntaxes ;-)

PS: Just so nobody gets confused I'm just kidding :-)

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