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Rex Reges wrote:
> 
> When reading code where every assignment is done on primitive
> components throughout, I find this reminiscent of writing a
> C program since C doesn't have an assignment operator for
> things like structures and arrays. Tedious, eh? 

AFAIK structure assignment was added to C sometime in the
late seventies.  You really ought to upgrade your compiler.