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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division
Message-ID: <8256@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 7 Jul 89 20:32:44 GMT
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Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <5160018@hpfcdc.HP.COM> marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Marc `Play Ball!' Sabatella) writes:
 > > But I do not believe that C++ or Ada allows one to define
 > >symbols or symbol combinations as infix operators.
 > 
 > I don't know about C++, but Ada certainly does have this ability:
 > you simply define a function something like this:
 > 
 > 	function "\" (in x, y:integer) returns integer is begin ... end;
 > 
 > modulo my rusty syntax.

Disregarding the bad syntax; this is not allowed.  In Ada you can only
redefine the predefined operators (with some exceptions).  So a
declaration for "\" is not allowed.
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