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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f51e93dacd9c7fca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-20 05:32:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!p02!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D11C89B.9010202@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: status of Ada STL? References: <4519e058.0206170753.599fd771@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:21:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1024575696 68.12.51.201 (Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:21:36 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:21:36 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26474 Date: 2002-06-20T12:21:36+00:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > But I contend it should at least be consistent with your assignment > operator for the type or types it applies to. One thing you are going to have to get used to in Ada is that assignment is *not* an operator. There are ways to indirectly change what it does for some user-defined types (hopefully Ada200X will change that to "all"), and you can disable it by making your type limited, but you can't overload it or do anything else with it directly.