Hi Manu Using obsolete is in keeping with the notion that Eiffel at least tries to support software engineering. Assuming that only a few expert users might...
Hi, we just upgraded the openEHR archetype application to Eiffel 6.6, and discovered that EiffelBuild is still emitting 'is' keywords on all event routines,...
I'm upgrading from EiffelStudio 6.4 to 6.6. Compiling is working within EiffelStudio, but I've just tried running the command line compiler for the first time...
Looking at http://docs.eiffel.com/book/method/et-instructions#The_iteration_form_as_a_boolean_expression , I have to say I am not convinced by the idea of...
Version = EiffelStudio 6 (6.6.8.2484 GPL Edition - macosx-x86-64) What does "project - [override](/Applications/MacPorts/Eiffel66/library/gobo/override)" in...
Hi All I just ran across a bug in some older code. OK, the fact is, it was not a bug until 6.6., and indeed the code goes back to pre-Columbian times. The...
Quickly, various points - use "require" instead of "Require" - class name are upper case, then use "REAL" instead of "real" - and your main error, a function...
Dear Eiffel community, Firstly, thank you for Eiffel Studio and for this forum; also thank you for the Eiffel language. I have been doing a lot of research on...
Dear OO colleagues, I am a great supported of "design by contract" approach and find it very useful in commercial real life programming practice (I don't use...
Hi Robert Writing good contracts can go a long way to addressing your concerns, but ultimately, there will be failures of some sort. The goal is the reduce...
Hi all, I'm just wondering if exists anything like the xmlbeans scomp tool for eiffel to be able to generate eiffel code from an XML schema. Also searching for...
Any chance of a little windows app for the syntax_updater? Trying to use a command line in windows with long file names is a problem. A little dialog to...
I'm using 6.6.8.2484 GPL Edition - macosx-x86-64 on an iMac. Sometimes the edit window scrolls out of control for a second or two. It is as if I have touched...
Hello. I would like to experiment with EiffellStudio in Gentoo Linux, and I would like to install it using the package management tools. Can anybody point me...
Hi Thomas Just curious what the goal is. A programmatic equivalent of diff is certainly appealing (to me), but then so would be encapsulations of things like...
Messages 17223 and 17224? I saw two messages related to manifest strings in when...then branches, and wanted to answer. But now they are gone... Regards, David...
Has anyone written the source code for the standard 'diff' algorithm for generating unified diff output from a 2 file comparison? If so, I would like to use...
Hi, We have just put a new revision of EiffelStudio 6.6 at http://www.eiffel.com/downloads. This fixes a few issues reported on this mailing list the past...
Some of my classes have similar contracts, and I have been pondering what kind of reusable patterns I could use for contracts in my code. For instance,...
I cannot address the question of "no longer used", but I'll pass this on anyway. I once wrote a paper proposing the use of attachable finite state machines to...
I've been working on part of an LLVM backend for Eiffel. I put a posting of my progress up on http://eiffelstudio.origo.ethz.ch/node/409 for those that are...
Hello all, I'm reading OOSC 2nd ed, and just got to 15.4 Repeated inheritance, and find the Eiffel syntax for replication confusing. I'll explain what I mean...
Hi All I have run into a problem with 6.6 estudio that was not there in 6.5. I (deliberately) violate a precondition in a pretty simple program and it crashes...
Is there any simulator written in Eiffel which is able to emulate semi-conductor design models ? Does someone know if people or company have been involved in...
* * Eiffel 6.4 / Windows If I have a create clause like class X create make, make_with_string, make_with_integer end and I try to do x: X create x I get the...
