Re: In a pickle.

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:

> Does this mean that in the above assignment Iterator is finalized
> after Next (Iterator) is evaluated but before the assignment takes
> place?  That would mean that a suitably coded finalize would do the
> job, correct?

   a := b;

I'm not sure whether a has to be finalized after b has been
evaluated. However, disregarding that, what happens is

   finalize the old a
   overwrite a with a bitwise copy of b
   adjust the overwritten a

It gets recursive if a has components which themselves have
finalize/adjust.