... well, if the programmer's need is to get rid of the routine f from from a parent that is export {NONE}, which indicates no expectation of type ...
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Ian Joyner
i.joyner@...
Mar 17, 2012 12:49 am
A lot of people are now using result as a variable name for the return value in many languages. I believe this first came from Eiffel, but can't find proof. Or...
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Paul Cohen
pacoispaco
Mar 17, 2012 6:57 am
Hi, ... I use this convention in Python. I definitely took it from Eiffel, so your hypothesis is true for at least one case! :-) /Paul -- Paul Cohen ...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Mar 17, 2012 8:49 am
... I don't know the answer to your question, Ian, but I'm one those people you mention. I've been doing it for at least 20 years ... in C, C#, Visual Basic,...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Mar 17, 2012 10:07 am
... Okay, that's what I thought you meant. You're talking about the case where a client object calls 'f'. In that situation then it's true that the parent 'f'...
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Thomas Beale
twbeale
Mar 17, 2012 11:26 am
... sure - I agree with that. It is the 'undefine' statement that says I am throwing out the default_create routines in 2 out of 3 ancestors not the export...
19056
Ian Joyner
i.joyner@...
Mar 17, 2012 12:30 pm
I think the function return value being assigned to the name of the function predates Pascal to ALGOL. I have a Burroughs ALGOL manual dated 1977, which shows...
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Gerrit
gerrit_leder
Mar 17, 2012 1:13 pm
OK, I can only answer one question regarding SCOOP processors: when the maximum number mentioned below is exceeded it yields a runtime exception. There should...
19058
brucemount
Mar 17, 2012 4:39 pm
Gerrit: ... Thanks! That really helps me. Now I know not to architect a solution that assumes Eiffel will queue large numbers of concurrent requests. Maybe I...
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Simon
simonvharvey
Mar 18, 2012 6:28 am
My EIFFEL info is: Installation information: Version = EiffelStudio 7 (7.0.8.8046 GPL Edition - macosx-ppc) $ISE_EIFFEL =...
19060
larry_rix
Mar 18, 2012 12:34 pm
The earliest mention I can locate of a Return is at the point the notion of subroutine ("subprogram") came into being in assembler. The Wiki article on...
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LARRY RIX
larry_rix
Mar 18, 2012 7:42 pm
I have noted the same issue and solved it by either using or not using the Vision2 precompile (I am not at my PC to recall and test. I will do so upon getting...
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Ian Joyner
i.joyner@...
Mar 18, 2012 10:00 pm
I wonder if there were any clear thinkers in assembler who labelled a memory cell 'result'. Subprograms were really just sets of common instructions, with no...
19063
Ian Joyner
i.joyner@...
Mar 18, 2012 10:18 pm
Oh I should have included a link to the Crockford videos: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/crockford-on-javascript-the-complete-series/ which...
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Emmanuel Stapf
manus_eiffel
Mar 19, 2012 3:58 am
The EiffelVision2 library which is using the Thread libraries are not SCOOP ready yet but should soon be in the forthcoming release of EiffelStudio 7.1 in May....
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Simon
simonvharvey
Mar 19, 2012 7:49 am
Manu, Larry, Thanks for the info and update. Simon...
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Bertrand Meyer
bmeyer_eiffel
Mar 19, 2012 8:18 pm
Thanks, Ian, for raising this issue which brought back some memories of the original design. I answered in some detail in my blog at http://bertrandmeyer.com. ...
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Ian Joyner
i.joyner@...
Mar 20, 2012 12:20 am
Thanks Bertrand for the as usual detailed explanation with background. I look forward to seeing the analysis of intermodule relationships in Simula if you find...
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Alexander Kogtenkov
kogtenkov
Mar 22, 2012 1:29 pm
Dear Bruce, SCOOP processors provide safe access to the shared resources in a concurrent application. But they are the processing resources themselves. A...
19069
brucemount@...
brucemount
Mar 22, 2012 1:50 pm
Alexander: Thanks for the detailed explanation of practical uses of SCOOP. That was very helpful, thank you. --Bruce [Non-text portions of this message have...
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Berend de Boer
berenddeboer
Mar 30, 2012 1:22 am
Hi All, Some languages relax the constraint for the final comma in a comma separated list, most notably PHP. Javascript allows it in some browsers (most...
19071
Emmanuel Stapf
manus_eiffel
Mar 30, 2012 4:01 am
... The main issue with allowing such syntax is that there are more than one interpretation. Using a simplified expression: << a, >> can either mean 1 - an...
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Jocelyn Fiat
jfiat@...
Mar 30, 2012 4:30 am
For me, it sounds obvious << a, >> is a one element array In the same spirit, it would be nice to allow create make_1, make 2 , feature {NONE} - ... or local...
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Thomas Beale
twbeale
Mar 30, 2012 7:50 am
... this is a non-obvious interpretation to me! ... - thomas [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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andersoxie
Mar 30, 2012 11:24 am
Hi I have some test cases in auto test. At the moment I have problems when I run them together but not when I run them one at a time. How are the testcases...
19075
Hal Webre
halwebre
Mar 30, 2012 2:53 pm
Hello Anders, Take a look at: http://docs.eiffel.com/book/eiffelstudio/create-manual-test#Other_predefined_tags There is a facility available (tag...
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Bertrand Meyer
bmeyer_eiffel
Mar 30, 2012 4:09 pm
I am not so sure. It would have to be done for all lists with the comma as a separator. It "makes editing easier and more relaxed", but is this desirable if it...
19077
andersoxie
Mar 30, 2012 5:58 pm
Thanks, it helped me understand how it works. Anders...
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Hal Webre
halwebre
Mar 30, 2012 6:09 pm
Anders, In my original message I believe I misrepresented one thing. I wrote that "execution/serial/some_group_name" would "ensure that certain groups of tests...
19079
larry_rix
Mar 30, 2012 6:48 pm
Stated another way: A test will not run concurrently with another test, where both tests are tagged with "execution/serial/[same_group]", the [same_group] will...
