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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators
Date: 03 Jul 2003 10:46:50 -0400
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Richard Riehle wrote:
>  > For limited types, assignment is never possible.  Therefore,
> > overloading assignment is not possible.
> 
> That "therefore" doesn't actually follow. In C++, to make assignment
> impossible, you declare a private assignment operator. Surely it would
> be no problem to say that assignment may not be overloaded for limited
> types.

Hmm. The point is that assignment does not exist in the first place
for limited types, therefore there is nothing to overload.

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-- Stephe