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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:37:57 +0000 (UTC)
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* Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
>> * Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>> Provided 1.& 2. one could just enlarge the set of lexical elements and
>>> let the programmer to choose what he/she wants. I would like to see
>>> "<+>", "[+]", "(+)", "+:=", "<+>:=" etc added, but is that worth the
>>> efforts?
>>
>> No. The "idem" proposal is worth the efforts.
>
> Probably yes, but "idem" is rather an independent thing. It does not solve
> neither a problem of in-place operations (including constructors), nor a
> problem user-defined assignment(s) [for all types.]

If so, then "procedure Add_Inplace(to : in out Matrix, a : in out Matrix);"
exists and has to be provided anyway.