From: "Mark J. Reed" <mreed@...>
Date: 2004-04-08T00:54:18+09:00
Subject: Re: New variable types and assorted lunacy

gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove.yahoo.it> writes:
>You can't ovverride = sorry. It's not a message so we are stuck with
>stupid accessors :)
>it would be cool anyway to be able to override assignment :)

No, no, no, no, no!  Eeeeeevil!  You could never be sure of anything if
x = y might do something other than make x an alias for the object pointed to
by y.  Even the most flexible system needs some solid basis. :)

Anyway, you can override []=, which is good enough for arrayish things.

-Mark