Re: proposal for new assignment operators

[tmoran@acm.org]

> I found the distinction between controlled and uncontrolled types to
> be completely obscure and to my mind completely unnecessary,
> particularly when compared with C++, where one simply overrides the
> assignment operator if desired.
  On a recent thread we were told that the usual idiom in C++ was
to do assignment a certain way to accomplish Finalization.  "idiom"
suggests it's up to the programmer to do it right.  When some complex
cases were mentioned, we were told basically that the programmer
would override assignment differently.  Personally, I prefer having
the computer do it, and do it right, rather than having to do it
myself, possibly making a mistaake in the process.