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Simon Willcocks wrote:

> I think I'll try to stick to languages with garbage collection.


But garbage collection has nothing to do with this problem!

The problem is handling an assignment when the type contains
bases and subobjects that must be copied, and doing such
copying could cause exceptions. You must arrange for the
copying to succeed, or else leave the destination object in
a consistent state, as well as propogate exceptions back to
the caller.