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From: marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Marc `Play Ball!' Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Language Tenets (was Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division
Message-ID: <5160019@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 89 15:35:41 GMT
References: <147@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> 	function "\" (in x, y:integer) returns integer is begin ... end;
>
>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.

Would you believe I meant "/" - honest, I really did!