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Le Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:37:53 +0200, Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> a  =

=C3=A9crit:
> So a special rule had to be added to make the language *prefer* the
> "universal access" equality function over any other function.
>
> Hope this helps,
Yes Adam, that help, but raise another question: the choice of the  =

anonymous access type operator is surprising to me. Why was the choice o=
f  =

the more specific operator rejected ? I guess this may be because the  =

anonymous access type may not always be a valid parameter for the more  =

specific redefined operator of the named access type (ex. different  =

storage pool), but the choice of the least specific operator, is  =

counterintuitive, and unintuitive things may lead to bad surprised and  =

unexpected behavior (an an error at compile time is always preferable to=
  =

an unexpected behavior).

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