From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-04-08T01:24:18+09:00
Subject: Re: New variable types and assorted lunacy

il Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:50:04 GMT, Mark J. Reed <mreed@thereeds.org> ha
scritto::

>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. :)

hey, that's ooold thinking man! get in the third millennium! You think
in fortran man! 
Ok, I know that this is plain evil :)

But, there could be funny thing done with this, say ..dunno.. static
type checking or enforced variable declaration a-la VB 8-)