ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) (09/23/89)
one thing that all of the c++ programmers will know by heart, but most of the ada programmers may not have thought of is that one of the most common ways for a reference to an adt to be destroyed is by overwriting due to assignment. of course, handling this is simple if you can overload assignment. likewise, if you can outlaw assignment, then the second best solution of naming it something else is possible. but where does this leave ada? no overloading or forbidding assignment leaves the writer of a reliable reference counting adt in a real pickle. -- ted@nmsu.edu Most of all, he loved the fall when the cottonwoods leaves turned gold and floated down the trout streams under the clear blue windswept skies.