Lucas

I really think the problem is simple. (Sorry if I missunderstand part of the discussion but is complicated to me understand some English styles).

I think you got everything. Please tell me if something that I write is confusing to you and I'll try to write it differently.

We have one "massive overloaded chuck operator" and a reference assignement operator that haven't defined it behavior on primitive values.

Yes, as far as I can see you are right. This is no big problem but it does look a bit inconsistent and confusing to me.

Maybe Tom feels differently, he seems to feel we don't need any assignment at all. I don't think I agree with that but it's a interesting idea to say the least.