From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d2f0af5e440b367f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-03 06:13:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed!bigboote.WPI.EDU!news.tufts.edu!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!spool.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 09:03:17 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030611 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators References: <3EF9CD5F.6030608@cogeco.ca> <3doRhIgUmUYX@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3F038B77.2F2E41B7@adaworks.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1057237397.612091@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@nightcrawler.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1057237397 3090 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40021 Date: 2003-07-03T09:03:17-04:00 List-Id: I thought it might be something like that :-) Actually, one feature of the way Ada does it is that it avoids the assignment operator / copy constructor dichotomy present in C++. (In C++, initialization, including that of function parameters, happens under the auspices of a copy constructor, not by assignment.)