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,ebbca47c76670bb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-25 10:45:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp1.phx1.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D6917C6.3B8A@earthlink.net> From: Vincent Marciante X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (OS/2; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Reemergence of predefined equality operator... References: <3D488F3D.6186@earthlink.net> <5ee5b646.0208010406.6d9ae2e3@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:46:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.185.160.219 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1030297561 63.185.160.219 (Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:46:01 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:46:01 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28394 Date: 2002-08-25T17:46:01+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > Vincent Marciante wrote in message news:<3D488F3D.6186@earthlink.net>... > > If overriding of predefined "=" was disallowed in the > > future (not practical?) wouldn't that solve the problem > > well? Is that really really not practical? > > Of course that's not practical. Yes, of course. > Remember that it is possible to redefine "=" in Ada 83 > as well. Only for limitted types (except for the trick that has been mentioned occasionally) right? By the way, can you describe the trick or refer me to more info about it?