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Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> Interesting thought.  RM 7.6 (17, 17.1, and 21) permit an implementation 
> to omit that Finalization, and requires that it be omitted in some 
> cases.  But you are right that a compiler could actually do that call in 
> some circumstances.

I don't think compilers can eliminate that Finalize call. 7.6/17 says,
without listing any exceptions, "The target of the assignment_statement
is then finalized." All the other permissions deal with the temporary
anonymous object that the canonical semantics create.