Re: Redefined "=" = generic disaster?

[Vincent Marciante <marciant@li.net>]

The example exhibits the exact behavior that I had 
been trying to describe. Thanks for posting it - 
that makes one less thing that I have to worry 
about doing in my currently limitted ;) time!

Also, I remembered the previous thread and tried to 
reread it on deja before I posted my note.  That 
previous thread didn't single out reemergence of "=" 
as being especially bad though - did it?

Vinny

P.S. Big news soon..! 

Mats Weber wrote:
> 
> Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > I still don't get it, the original claim was that there was
> > something special about "=" that made things particularly
> > awkward.
> > [...]
> 
> I first wanted to shut up on this issue when I saw it reemerge. But I
> can't tell people to go to deja.com and search for it because searches
> for postings prior to May 15, 1999, are temporarily unavailable.
> 
> I think there really is a problem with the reemergence of predefined
> operations within generics, and that problem has been acknowleged by the
> Ada 95 design team: draft versions of the 9X reference manual had rules
> removing the reemergence problem, but later these rules were removed in
> the final Ada 95 RM. IMO, this was a mistake.
> 
> Anyway here is an example program that illustrates the problem (see code
> at end of message).

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