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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: The "()" operator revisited.
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"Mark A. Biggar" <mark@biggar.org> writes:

> There are other issues as well.  Ada has several things that look like
> assigmment but are subtly different: Variable initialization, function
> return, by-value parameter binding, etc.

This is true, but there are really only *two* things that look like ":="
-- the assignment_statement, and initialization of a newly-created
object.  Everything besides assignment_statement falls into the latter
category.

- Bob