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Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
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"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message 
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> Note that (as Randy alluded to) there's still a chance the ARG will add
> something like reference types to Ada.  It would be declared something 
> like:
>
>   function Update_Element
>     (Container : in Map;
>      Key         : in  Key_Type) return access Element_Type;
>
> Then you could say:
>
>   Update_Element (M, K).all := 42;

I still like the idea of adding "()" and "():=" operators to Ada. Then you 
could say:

    M(K) := 42;

This is clearer, and it makes absolutely no assertions as to how containers 
represent their elements.