Re: overloading "=" (equal sign)

["John" <j.gonzale@worldnet.att.net>]

I think Keith is right since I'm using VADS Ada 83, for multi-thread.
programming.
I have a number of packages calling this operator, concurrently.
If I make it 'limited private', I will have to go into every single package,
and make them limited private types...
sounds confusing, but any one has a better solution...to minimize work
:-) ?
Thanks
John

Keith Thompson wrote in message ...
>Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> writes:
>> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 21:13:21 -0400, "John" <j.gonzale@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
>>
>> > It looks like the "=" sign when overloaded, it asks for limited type
>> > parameters only.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by this, becuase the equality operator does
>> NOT have to take limited types as parameters.  Perhaps if you send some
>> code, then we can determine what the problem is.
>
>I think Ada 83 had such a restriction.  There's a workaround using a
>generic with a limited private type parameter; perhaps someone else
>can remember the details.  (The existence of the workaround may have
>been part of the motivation for removing the restriction in Ada 95.)
>
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