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Kevin Cline wrote:
> Somehow I've never understood the point of making limited types a
> special case.  Why not consider assignment as just another operation a
> type can support, or not, just like addition or ordered comparison?  I
> think this is one of the fundamental errors in the Ada design --
> certain operations are somehow "more equal" than others, and
> redefining them requires special syntax.

I don't think it's an _error_.  What other language at
that time could redefine an assignment operator?

Now, Ada does allow redefining assignment--for certain types.

-- 
Wes Groleau
   "Ideas are more powerful than guns,
    We would not let our enemies have guns;
    why should we let them have ideas?"
                                -- Jozef Stalin