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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Comments requested for a couple of Ada-Comments submissions
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:16:32 +0300
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On 14-07-11 22:10 , Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 19:00:29 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:
> 
>> Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>     (C => D, E => F, use all others in A)
>>
>>    (A with new C => D, E => F)
> 
> A'Update (C => D, E => F)

Is that an assignment to A, or an expression yielding a value without
altering A? If the former, I'm against it, because it would solve only
the "atomic update" problem and would not have other uses.

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Niklas Holsti
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