Re: Q: on redefinition of "=

[bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)]

In article <4jkj5sINN8d3@aleutian.cis.ohio-state.edu>,
david scott gibson <dgibson@aleutian.cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>Hi.  I'm overloading the = operation to return a non-boolean value for
>a non-limited private type.  Is there any way in Ada95 to "hide" the
>automatically defined = returning a boolean value?  Redefining =
>returning a boolean type in the private section didn't seem to help.

function "="(X, Y: My_Type) return Boolean is abstract;

This overrides the predefined "=" with an abstract version.
It's illegal to call this abstract version, since calls to
abstract function have to be dispatching calls, and there are
no tagged operands, so there's no way to write a dispatching call.
(I'm assuming My_Type is not tagged, here.)

- Bob