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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Overloading operator =?utf-8?B?4oCcPeKAnQ==?= for anonymous
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> I'm not at all clear why the example code is legal, or why it would be
> legal to call it; since 'access Cell' appears to match "neither operand
> shall be of an access-to-object type whose designated type is D or
> D'Class, where D has a user-defined primitive equality operator ..."

Still not clear.

Note to self: do *not* attempt to define "=" for anonymous access types!

Would have liked the AIs to have said "it is illegal to define "=" for
anonymous access types".