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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: defining functions
Date: 1999/11/24
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In article <81gthb$kej$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>,
  "Riyaz Mansoor" <s800032@student.uq.edu.au> wrote:

> when i try to define a function as below my compiler tells me the name
> is invalid. when i change the name to "=" it works fine. is this a
> compiler specific problem? or ada restriction?
>
>    function  "=="  (Stack1, Stack2 : in Stack) return Boolean;

No. You do not get to create your own binary operators with any series
of random characters you choose. You are restricted to the ones the
language provides. I was a smidge diappointed when I first figured that
out myself.

> anyway i can tell the compiler to accept "==" as a valid name?
No. You'll have to stick to Ada/Pascal/Modula/Oberon syntax for equality
and assignment. Sorry.

But on the bright side, you'll make less compilable typos this way.

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