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From: tiemann@LURCH.STANFORD.EDU (Michael Tiemann)
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Subject: Can't assign 'this' in a constructor
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Date: 2 Dec 89 23:25:55 GMT
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If you want to assign to `this', you must use the flag
-fthis-is-variable.  The 2.0 language spec permits GNU C++ to be picky
about this matter, though it suggests compiler writers go easy on
their users by giving the a flag whereby original behavior is
restored.  GNU C++ has never allowed `this' to be assigned outside of
constructors and destructors, so there is no behvior to restore there.

Michael