"Rim" <rimbalaya at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:6f03c4a5.0306301931.3f15fbb7 at posting.google.com... > Hi, > > I have been thinking about how to overload the assign operation '='. Assignment is a statement, not an operator, and therefore not overloadable . This is an intentional design decision that GvR will not change. TJR