Hi Roger! Thanks for your response and as suggested I tried to change the call to deflateInit_ as well as to change to the call to appropriately call ...
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Alan Tafuri
alanmt35
Sep 2, 2008 11:11 am
Hi, I´m Alan Tafuri, a solution developer residing in Brazil. I´d like to say that I´m happy to find this group, and wish to share with all of you my...
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rfo@...
roger.osmond
Sep 2, 2008 11:36 am
Hello Hubert! Would you mind sending the Eiffel code (and values, from the debugger or even a printf) that you are giving the external? Does the zlib...
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Hubert Cater
hubertcater
Sep 2, 2008 6:44 pm
Roger I will send you the files I put together and hopefully you can see the obvious error that I seem to be overlooking. Thanks again. For the Zlib...
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Ian King
iek_uk
Sep 3, 2008 5:07 pm
Hi Jonathan, Sorry for the late reply, your code is indeed valid but due to a bug in the way the 6.2 compiler handles replicated features with regards to ...
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Helmut Brandl
helmut_l_brandl
Sep 3, 2008 11:57 pm
Is it possible in EiffelStudio / FreeELKS to inherit from SPECIAL? Since SPECIAL is frozen, I asume that conformant inheritance is not allowed. But...
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marvin_littlewood_426...
marvin_littl...
Sep 4, 2008 12:37 am
... Is ... Dear Manu Before I do... I have found the precise circumstances where this occurs. It is when class A is in a not-precompiled library that is...
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Eric Bezault
gobosoft
Sep 4, 2008 6:35 am
... I shared the same point of view about theory. In fact in my opinion SPECIAL should not be frozen. But as far as I know (Manu will need to confirm) there is...
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azador1606
Sep 4, 2008 7:48 am
Can someone elucidate the state of Eiffel .NET development? My understanding from the documentation was that .NET 1.0 and 1.1 were (somewhat) supported. But...
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Helmut Brandl
helmut_l_brandl
Sep 4, 2008 2:13 pm
In the ECMA specification from june 2006 there seems to be an error in the definition of the scope for an object test local. 8.24.5. says: If ot is a...
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prabhuram.engg
Sep 4, 2008 2:25 pm
I am newbie to Eiffel but good on OOAD concepts. From what I see, is only ONE feature of a class can be used by a calling class (client) ? I am forced to write...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Sep 4, 2008 2:40 pm
... This would be fixed if "and then" was abolished from the language, and "and" had the same meaning that "and then" currently has. The EiffelStudio compiler...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Sep 4, 2008 2:44 pm
... No, a class can have as many creation routines as you want. Look at STRING_8, for example, which has make, make_empty, etc. - Peter Gummer...
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Helmut Brandl
helmut_l_brandl
Sep 4, 2008 4:17 pm
Peter, thank you for your information. It is completely new to me, that the ECMA committee considers abolishing the distinction between "and then" and "and"....
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prabhuram.engg
Sep 4, 2008 5:17 pm
... Thanks Gummer, Typical scope resolution. I covered my features routines by using feature {}. This syntax made all my defined routines private and...
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Colin LeMahieu
colinlema
Sep 4, 2008 6:42 pm
There's no reason to limit the number of creation procedures. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Howard Thomson
howard_thomson
Sep 5, 2008 9:10 am
Hi, I see from the digest No 2176, discussing the Scope of object tests, that 'and then' may be abolished, and that 'and' may be made semi-strict ? In Eiffel,...
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Eric Bezault
gobosoft
Sep 5, 2008 9:28 am
... I don't remember of such discussion at ECMA. -- Eric Bezault mailto:ericb@... http://www.gobosoft.com...
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Martin East
east_martin
Sep 5, 2008 9:57 am
I think this is already a confused area: as far as I am aware user-defined or redefined semi-strict operators "and then" and "or else" are not semi-strict,...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Sep 5, 2008 1:28 pm
... I've tracked down the relevant thread, in November 2004: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/eiffel_software/message/4756 My memory was faulty. It was not...
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Helmut Brandl
helmut_l_brandl
Sep 5, 2008 2:08 pm
... I don't know what you want to say with "tightening up". The current ECMA specification is very clear about the "and" and "or" operator. They have to be...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Sep 5, 2008 2:16 pm
... Yes, Helmut. As I said, Raphaél wrote those words in 2004. - Peter Gummer...
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Helmut Brandl
helmut_l_brandl
Sep 5, 2008 2:19 pm
Hello Eric, I read your comment that ECMA is not considering making the "and" and "or" operators semistrict. But then I have to insist on my posting that the...
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Eric Bezault
gobosoft
Sep 5, 2008 2:31 pm
... I said that I didn't remember a discussion about removing "and then" and "or else". But I know that some compilers internally implement "and" as "and then"...
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Helmut Brandl
helmut_l_brandl
Sep 5, 2008 2:55 pm
... But that is not an optimization. It has different semantics. If Eiffel enforced "pure queries" (i.e. queries without any side effect and not raising any...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Sep 5, 2008 2:59 pm
... Helmut, EiffelStudio has had semi-strict behaviour for "and" or "or" since at least 2004. The ECMA standard did not exist in 2004. There is no issue here...
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Helmut Brandl
helmut_l_brandl
Sep 5, 2008 3:38 pm
... I agree with you completely. I don't think that EiffelStudio will change the non-strictness or their "and" and "or" operator for exactly the reason you...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Sep 5, 2008 3:42 pm
... Why do you say they are not committed to follow the ECMA standard? They have stated, many times, for many years, that they intend to follow the standard....
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Eric Bezault
gobosoft
Sep 5, 2008 4:04 pm
... Please don't shoot at the messenger. I know that they have different semantics, and I have that in mind when I write Eiffel code. I just reported facts. --...
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Helmut Brandl
helmut_l_brandl
Sep 5, 2008 4:05 pm
... Sorry, my statement has been a little bit too provocative. I apologize. But a compiler writer cannot look just at the skyline, he has to scrutinize the...
