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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: += in ada
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:26:43 +0000 (UTC)
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* Gautier wrote:
> The issue is then not an optimization problem, but an
> readbility & verifiability one. An Inc(a,b) guaranteed
> with pragma Intrinsic by the next Standard would be just fine.

The "idem"-Idiom would be much better.
  X(b(i).all+7) := idem + 2/idem;

And please do not forget the exception handling: "a += b" should keep the
value of a and b when detecting an overflow!