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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
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>readily tell += from := needs a stronger pair of reading glasses.
  Is there any human being who can do a good job proofreading his own
writings?  It's not a question of what your eyesight + glasses allows
you to see, but of what your brain allows you to notice.

>it seems to me they could just as easily confuse + with *, l with 1,
>or 0 with O.
  Which is why most programmers cringe at code that uses l or O for
variable names (as in the recently posted "const L &l;").