there are many customers who claim thet the combination DM / VE is the best RAD development system available on the market. (Compared with system from...
Hi, I am a Brasilian computer science student and that is my first message for this group. Why not a Eiffel RAD enviroment to windows/linux development ? Is...
-- We apologise in advance if you see this message more than once.. NICE announced today that they have established a ``Regular Membership Application39;' page...
My email server likes to bit-bucket stuff now and then; thot this mail-list was dying until I checked egroups.com. A lot of interesting stuff has been flying...
As I had proposed before, I think that NICE should be organized in the same manner as IETF. Here is a link to the chapter about IETF from the book "Open...
In reference to:- http://www.sdmagazine.com/breakrm/ fr_feat.htm This is all very good Eiffel stuff. Although BM could have written most of it several years...
This is from: http://www.sdmagazine.com/homepage.shtml ... =========================================================================== No JOLT award for these...
I have a question about current ELKS'95 specification. Consider the following declaration of class FILE (ELKS'95): end_of_file: BOOLEAN -- Has an EOF been...
Sorry folks, but where is NICE's charter etc. ? Thanks Keith ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/eiffel-nice-discuss Free Web-based e-mail groups by...
Here is something I've been thinking about and typed up tonight. I'm sure these issues are old hat to most of you; however, I have not seen them specifically...
Well, I'm very glad I joined this e-group - this has got to be the highest level of constructive debate I have seen on any form of newsgroup. Of course, Eiffel...
... I think standarization will be worthy--all base libraries out there could do with some improvement. Even though I am doing compiler work, I see the...
Hi, I strongly believe that to be effective NICE should be reorganized along the lines of the Internet Engineering Task Force (http://www.ietf.org). The most...
... the clas STD_FILES was standardizted in ELKS, Vintage 95. It uses in all 2-word combinations an underline as separator. So, there is NO putinteger, but...
... Yes, but I can see advantages and disadvantages. First you would need to get a large number of national bodies to vote for this as a new work item. I'm not...
... Good point. ... For runtime purposes it's not really needed. At runtime there are no deferred routines. If it exists it can be called... ... Yes. I meant...
Hi, As promised I have put up a Web page with a draft proposal for an Introspection/Reflection library for Eiffel. http://www.netlabs.net/~richieb/meta/ ...
Hi, I've updated my pages following the flood of many excellent suggestions. Please take a look: http://www.netlabs.net/hp/richieb/meta/index.html The next...
Hi, Looking at the code I realized that EIFFEL_ATTRIBUTE class needs to be a generic to properly handle the distinction between expanded and reference...
comp.lang.eiffel has raised a discussion about dynamic creation of objects (i.e. creation of objects by their type name). CECIL already has this feature...
I too would like to see support for ISO 10646 (at least UTF-8 & UTF-16 representations) written into ELKS and implemented ASAP. A few reasons; - There already...
So far, the NICE discussions have been relatively placid, without a lot of email or harangues. Which is not what I really wanted :-) Last week Geoff sent out...
I recommend that NICE devote some effort to defining a standard, highly automated way of integrating third party software into Eiffel programs. Developing...
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