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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Equality operator overloading in ADA 83
Date: 1997/05/01
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Date: 1997-05-01T00:00:00+00:00
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<<This (Ada 83 code behaving in a different way with reemergence removed)
is not possible with the "=" operator because of the restrictions that
Ada 83 put on it. It can only happen with other operators, e.g. numeric
types for which "+", "-", etc. have been redefined.>>

That's false, we all know how to redefine equality in Ada 83 ....