From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a5f87a50bf9eecc7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: Re: help with include and library files in GPS References: <1140710414.054668.201470@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1392397.TMLNCp2Aq0@linux1.krischik.com> <75WdnRLuksezMJ3ZnZ2dnUVZ_tudnZ2d@comcast.com> <3538707.Le0VB0dQMj@linux1.krischik.com> <9gnvOIcTdKYO@eisner.encompasserve.org> In-Reply-To: <9gnvOIcTdKYO@eisner.encompasserve.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:35:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.150.71.161 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1141065316 67.150.71.161 (Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:35:16 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:35:16 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3190 Date: 2006-02-27T18:35:16+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > To me the concept of "assignment" means copying some bits from here to > there, regardless of whether they belong. But Ada has strong typing. If you can't distinguish bitwise copying from assignment, then you probably don't understand user-defined assignment. It's not user-defined bitwise copying. -- Jeff Carter "My legs are gray, my ears are gnarled, my eyes are old and bent." Monty Python's Life of Brian 81