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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: status of Ada STL?
Date: 18 Jun 2002 18:02:48 +0200
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> "chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm not going to argue with you (you've made up your mind and so have I,
> > what's the point?), I'm just curious as to whether compilers would see A :=
> > A / 2 and think "that code's dividing the matrix by 2 and assigning it to
> > itself.  It might be better just to divide it inplace" leading to the same
> > thing.  But then I'm largely ignorant of compilers.
> 
> I don't think any Ada compilers are that smart.

Ok, but that is a compiler issue, I don't see why it should not be possible
and it is not a language issue.

Pascal.

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