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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>
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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.