On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Stephen R. van den Berg <s...@cuci.nl> wrote: > The operation could be determined by "overloading" based on types. > I.e. a String Buffer `=(string a) would only activate when the lvalue is > a buffer type, and the rvalue is of type string.
Maybe. Still strikes me as dangerously magical. I'd much rather mutation be done with methods (or augmented assignments). ChrisA