Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!gatech!hubcap!billwolf From: billwolf@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Collective response to := messages Message-ID: <3732@hubcap.UUCP> Date: 4 Dec 88 20:30:21 GMT References: <4123@enea.se> Sender: news@hubcap.UUCP Reply-To: billwolf@hubcap.clemson.edu Lines: 8 From article <4123@enea.se>, by sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog): > Oh, someone thought that an user-defined ":=" should apply to parameter > passing as well. This is of course impossible. In that case ":=" should > define how the parameters were passed to itself. A true circular definition! Recall the discussion. The rule that the "old" version of assign would apply throughout any function named ":=", including parameter passing, handles this contingency.