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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9fb64e4c58f1fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: David Morton Subject: Re: overload ":=" ??? Date: 1996/07/18 Message-ID: <31EE43DA.79E97C27@jinx.sckans.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169476968 references: <31ED3F5F.1135B4EA@jinx.sckans.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: student mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.7 i486) Date: 1996-07-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > David Morton asks > > Is there a way to overload the assignment operator ":=" ? > > No, not directly (for many reasons the kind of simple minded approach > you suggested, though it seems reasonable at first, does not work). > > (i.e. cannot easily be made to work from a language desigfn point of view) > > However, look at non-limited controlled types and the Adjust procedure. > I think you will find you can do what you want! That looks interesting, but how does it work??? :) -- David Morton mailto:dmorton@jinx.sckans.edu http://www.sckans.edu/~dmorton/ 205 College, Winfield, KS 67156 This signature will self-destruct in 10 seconds...