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From: dsr@hector.UUCP (David S. Rosenblum)
Subject: Re: Collective response to := messages
Date: 2 Dec 88 14:58:16 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10923@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 42334@linus.UUCP

In article <42334@linus.UUCP> eachus@mbunix.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
|
|     "Overloading is defined for subprograms, enumeration literals,
|operators, and single entries, and also for the operations that are
|inherent in several basic operations such as assignment, membership
|tests, allocators, the literal null, aggregates, and string literals."
|
|      Overloading, and overload resolution involving basic operations
|is a fact of Ada life.

Yes, but there is an important difference between overloading of operators,
subprograms, etc., and overloading of basic operations.  Overloaded basic
operations are ALWAYS implicitly defined--they can NEVER be user-defined.
It is the proposal to allow user-defined overloadings of basic operations
that is prompting all the "frothing".


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  reply	other threads:[~1988-12-02 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1988-11-28 22:19 Collective response to := messages Geoff Mendal
1988-11-29 14:39 ` Dennis Doubleday
1988-11-29 21:08 ` Ray Trent
1988-11-30 14:37   ` Stephe Leake
1988-12-01 14:54     ` David S. Rosenblum
1988-12-02 20:21       ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-04 21:15         ` David S. Rosenblum
1988-12-04 23:27           ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-05 14:46             ` David S. Rosenblum
1988-12-05 21:23               ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-07 17:33                 ` Stephe Leake
1988-12-07 16:03               ` Definition of pass by reference Robert Eachus
1988-12-07 17:15             ` Collective response to := messages Stephe Leake
1988-12-07 16:07       ` Stephe Leake
1988-12-09  3:15         ` David S. Rosenblum
1988-12-01 21:31     ` Ray Trent
1988-12-07 16:21       ` Stephe Leake
1988-11-30 16:29   ` David S. Rosenblum
1988-11-30 18:29     ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-11-30 22:28       ` David S. Rosenblum
1988-12-01  3:09         ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-01 15:16           ` David S. Rosenblum
1988-12-02 19:31             ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-04 21:03               ` David S. Rosenblum
1988-12-05  2:34                 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-05 14:07                   ` David S. Rosenblum
1988-12-07 17:26                     ` Stephe Leake
1988-12-06 19:16                 ` Collective response to := messa stt
1988-12-09  3:39                   ` David S. Rosenblum
1988-11-30 19:13     ` CORRECTION Re: Collective response to := messages David S. Rosenblum
1988-12-01 18:31     ` Ray Trent
1988-12-02 14:49       ` David S. Rosenblum
1988-12-05 17:33         ` Collective response to := messa stt
1988-11-30 18:24   ` Collective response to := messages Robert Eachus
1988-12-02 14:58     ` David S. Rosenblum [this message]
1988-12-02 19:34   ` Mark C. Adolph
1988-12-05 17:15     ` Collective response to := messa stt
1988-11-29 21:44 ` Collective response to := messages William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1989-07-26 20:34 Memory Access Question tony
1989-07-27 13:06 ` richard a hammond
1989-07-27 18:53   ` Ray Trent
1989-07-28  0:48     ` Mike Murphy
1989-08-02 13:23       ` Mike Walsh
1989-08-02 20:20         ` Mike Murphy
1989-07-29  0:00 ` Brian Sullivan
1988-12-05  6:53 Collective response to := messages Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-03 22:53 Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-04 20:41 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-05  5:47   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1988-12-05 12:45     ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-06  1:54       ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1988-12-06 20:43         ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-03 21:08 Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-04 20:30 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-11-14 13:20 Ada language revision Stanley Roger Allen, AdaDude
1988-11-15 23:28 ` Wilmer Rivers
1988-11-16 19:06   ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-11-17 15:34     ` Stephe Leake
1988-11-18 16:39       ` Steve Tynor
1988-11-18 19:22       ` Ron Guilmette
1988-11-23 22:22       ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-11-29 15:35         ` Stephe Leake
1988-11-18  0:32     ` Ron Guilmette
1988-11-22 14:37       ` Stephe Leake
1988-11-23 13:37         ` Dennis Doubleday
1988-11-23 19:41           ` Steve Tynor
1988-11-23 21:14             ` Richard Pattis
1988-11-25 20:36             ` Robert Firth
1988-11-29 15:12           ` limited private types Stephe Leake
1988-12-01 23:06             ` Ron Guilmette
1988-12-05  1:48               ` Paul Stachour
1988-12-05 12:31                 ` Reference Semantics William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-06  0:29                   ` Paul Stachour
1988-12-07  1:07                     ` Reference Semantics, assignment overloading, etc Ray Trent
1988-12-08 17:36                       ` Reference Semantics, assignment ryer
1988-12-06 16:56               ` limited private types ryer
1988-12-06 20:09               ` stt
1988-12-07 15:51               ` Stephe Leake
1988-11-21 15:40   ` Ada language revision stt
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