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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:47:38 -0500
From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net>
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Date: 2008-02-07T22:47:38-05:00
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

> This is ill-advised. Objects may hold pointers to their own
> submembers. If you assign without adjusting, those internal
> pointers will point to the anonymous object, not to A.

Hmmm. I see what you are saying.

Peter