I mentioned this a long time ago – for regexes, although it doesn't
matter – and was explained to ad nauseam why it happened. It wasn't
the why I was interested in, but rather, like you, whether this was a
good thing. /methinksnot, but I had the impression back then to be a
bit alone...

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On 3/11/06, Thomas Tempelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just found something I did not expect to work like this:
>
>   dim d1, d2 as new Date
>
> I did expect that this would create TWO new Date instances, one for
> d1, and one for d2.
>
> Instead, there's only one instance which gets assigned to both d1 and d2.
>
> You do not need to explain to me why it happens like this - I ask the
> others of you if you agree that this is a GOOD result that you all
> want.
>
> Because I'd rather ask that the compiler gives an error to avoid this
> rather ambiguous effect: I say that if someone wants to have d1 and d2
> assigned the same value here, he should rather write this explicitly
> to avoid this possible confusion
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