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From: bbalfour@std.caci.com (Brad Balfour)
Subject: Re: How to overload assignment in Ada 95?
Date: 1996/12/09
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In article <58aclh$ssd@gaia.cc.gatech.edu>, chrisc@cc.gatech.edu
(Christopher D Carothers) wrote:

>        In 7.6 of the Ada95 LRM, it talks about
>user-defined assignment. Could someone please 
>provide me with an example of how I would in fact
>"overload" the assignment operator for a particular
>package. The LRM talks about the Ada.Finalization
>package and the the "Adjust" procedure. However,
>it does not give an example of how I would use
>this package to achieve the "overloading" of assignment.

I wrote up an example of this for an article in ACM SIGAda's Ada Letters
magazine in Vol. XIV, No. 5, September/October, 1994.
An online copy of this article can be found at:
http://www.acm.org/~bbalfour/tips_no_1.html

I hope this helps,
Brad

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