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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Equality operator overloading in ADA 83
Date: 1997/04/22
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Date: 1997-04-22T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <E91zFw.KDE@world.std.com>, bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A
Duff) wrote:


>It is important that the composability of "=" for these types be defined
>by the language.  We choose to make them composable.

Ah, the voice of reason in a chaotic world.  The right choice, of course. 
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Composability should always be guaranteed by user-defined types, too.

Matt

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