From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-30 12:56:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X Date: 30 May 2003 15:56:54 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED41344.7090105@spam.com> <3ED46D81.FF62C34F@0.0> <3ED46E07.4340CABC@0.0> <3ED4F3FD.A0EF7079@alfred-hilscher.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1054324614 16543 199.172.62.241 (30 May 2003 19:56:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 19:56:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38151 Date: 2003-05-30T15:56:54-04:00 List-Id: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes: > And let's not forget that +=, -=, etc. also allow for more efficient > in-place vector/matrix operations because they avoid the need for a > temporary. If you don't understand this, that's OK, but please don't > argue with me because you will be wrong. I can't let *that* slip by... ;-) Calling the procedure += instead of, say, Add_Matrix will not make it faster! The += notation is purely syntactic sugar, and has nothing to do with efficiency. - Bob