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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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On 2003-10-09, Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>> So what? A billion Chinese speak Chinese...
>
> Does 98% of the world population speak Chinese?

No, but according to your logic one should.

>> Do you want the pointer arithmic of C too?
>
> course not. Only C and C++ have it. My point was that all five of
> those languages -- the most popular general-purpose languages in
> current use -- *all* have augmented assignment.

So? All are derivatives of C. Ada is not.

> What am I to make about your missing such a clearly stated point? Do
> you deliberately *try* to miss the point when you don't want to hear
> it?

Try ask yourself the same question! How do you circumvent the
requirement in RM about not altering the value of the variable if a
exception occurs?

> And I get tired of people who assume that I want augmented assignment
> operators in Ada only because they are in C/C++. I'll tell you
> straight out that I have no fondness for C and C++, so please dump
> that strawman.

Is it strange? With the arguments you present?

Preben