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"Alfred Hilscher" <Spam@alfred-hilscher.de> wrote in message
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> Yeah, but Ada urgently needs some operators like "++" and "--" (i++;
> --i;)

Personally I don't see much value in the "++" and "--" operators... but I do
like the +=, -=, *=, /= operators.

Occasionally I run into code that looks something like:

production_total( total_class ).shift( shift_index ) :=
  production_total( total_class ).shift( shift_index ) + count;

That would read a lot cleaner as:

  production_total( total_class ).shift( shift_index ) += count;

Yeah, you can write a function to do the same thing, but it is more work
than just writing the code in the first form.

BTW: It also turns that simple case of:

  i := i + 1;
to
  i += 1;

In my experience in C/C++ programming I have never encountered bugs due to
the use of these operators.  Your mileage may vary.

Steve
(The Duck)

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