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Subject: Re: C Interface example
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:34:39 -0500
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artifact.one@googlemail.com writes:

> Yes, the original intent in C was to be able to do this sort of thing:
>
>   vec_addNf(vec_addNf(va, vb), vec_addNf(vc, vd));
>
> ...which may or may not be possible or desirable in Ada.

In Ada, this should be:

va := va + vb + vc + vd;

Note that I'm not sure va was the intended result, from the C code.
But I'm _very_ sure what the intended result is from the Ada code.

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