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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Comments requested for a couple of Ada-Comments submissions
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 20:26:44 +0300
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On 14-07-11 18:35 , Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:56:36 PM UTC-7, Shark8 wrote:
> 
>>> One suggested syntax would be:
>>> 	A := (A changing C => D, E => F);
>>> or
>>> 	A := (A updating C => D, E => F);
>>> where A is a record and C and E are record components.
> 
>> I don't really like the new keyword idea.
> 
>     A := (C => D, E => F, others => A.others);

To me, this looks too much like a normal aggregate. Only at the end,
from the new form "A.others", do we see that it is a partial aggregate.

Also, the duplication of the word "others" is a bit ugly, and "A.others"
does not really mean anything by itself; its meaning depends on the
components listed before the "others" part. How about:

   (C => D, E => F, then others => A)

or

   (C => D, E => F, and others => A)

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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