Re: overload ":=" ???

[gelleric@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Wolfgang Gellerich)]

In article <dewar.837646128@schonberg>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
|> David Morton asks
|> 
|> Is there a way to overload the assignment operator ":=" ?
|> 
|> 
|> No, not directly (for many reasons the kind of simple minded approach
|> you suggested, though it seems reasonable at first, does not work).
|> 
|> (i.e. cannot easily be made to work from a language desigfn point of view)

What is the problem with overloading := ? In the case discussed here, assigning
a string literal to an unbounded strng variable, there should be no 
difficulties ?

Regards,

  Wolfgang Gellerich