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"Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> My own opinion is that supporting limited types is a requirement for
> any general-purpose container.
>
> This is probably one reason why Ada will never be as popular as C++;
> in C++, you don't have to make this kind of decision :).

Why isn't this a C++ issue as well? Certainly it is possible to declare the
C++ equivalent of a limited type, i.e. a type for which assignment is not
available.