Is there a language specification of the short form? I would like to be able to parse it for various reasons when there is no Eiffel text (e.g. the NICE...
Dear group members, I am sorry for the long silence, new project starting, you know how it is... Nonetheless, we are still in our "short" visit to ANY with the...
Hi everyone, Arno, ... We are currently talking about that problem in SE. The problem arised because 'copy' dynamically changed the type of Current...!!! Of...
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:03:21AM +0100, Cyril Adrian wrote:
> Hi everyone, Arno, ... I saw that. My intuition is that 'copy' is bogus anyway,
'clone' is what...
... True. I keep forgetting that 'old' only copies the reference. I meant something like 'same_type(old Current.clone)'. However if 'clone' uses 'copy' that is...
... According to ELKS'95 the precondition of the function "copy" includes type_identity: same_type (other) Isn't it enough to ensure type correctness? ...
Arno Wagner wrote: ... There are also examples when the objects cannot be copied at all (e.g. singletons). The current interface does not allow to express this...
Hi all, there seems to be not much enthusiasm continuing the discussion where we left off. The topic we are working on right now (equality in ANY) is seemingly...
Hi Arno, I simply feel like there are too many issues up in the air right now, especially with the interaction between ECMA standardization and core Eiffel...
... I have been inactive these last few months because of too much activity elsewhere. That changed for the better (*ahem*) yesterday when the client ran out...
... [...] ... Feature creep? Sounds like yesterday was a liberating experience for you ;-) ... Yes, I am still in the process of catching up with that....
hi, [I believe this stuff belongs to eiffel-nice-library, and I only CC'd to -language, since the topic showed up there first. I suggest continuing on...
Robert Will
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Aug 7, 2003 5:10 pm
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... What is the behaviour of the functions in different Eiffel implementations? If it is the same across all implementations, it would be better to avoid...
... Everybody does what C does, which is what the hardware does, which seems consistent on all main platforms (I don't know whether it's clearly specified that...
... I meant exactly this (i.e., if all implementations do the same, no additional restrictions should be added to the features - only the description of their...
hi, it may be as simple as this: 1. Don't specify the semantics of the language in the first place. (There are more important things, after all.) 2. If...
Robert Will
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Aug 8, 2003 4:18 pm
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... This is being excessively pessimistic. Of course, when starting from scratch everybody should do proper specs as much as possible but humans are not...
... I've just tested VE and it turns out that // and \\ are implemented as quotient and remained functions. "truncated_to_integer" also behaves as you...
Greetings: This morning I noticed that for classes like HASH_TABLE, COMPARABLE_SET and other SET classes, the agent-enabling features like do_all and for_all...
It appears that there's an error in the GMP library that I found at http://www.pobox.com/~berend/eiffel/eiffelstruggle/2003/entries/gmp/GMP.zip In the file...
I wrote this library and have improved/updated (GMP 4.2.1) it several times since it was first written. I do not know how to provide updates to the site and...
... Hash: SHA1 ... Chris> I wrote this library and have improved/updated (GMP 4.2.1) Chris> it several times since it was first written. I do not know Chris>...
Hey Berend I'm currently working on a new version. MPFR has just been updated to version 2.2.1 and I'm also trying to take advantages of recent changes to ...
... I've updated the page: http://eiffelzone.com/esd/gmp/index.html Thanks Chris for sharing your software with others. Thanks Berend for hosting the package. ...
