A class rename can be accommodated without really breaking all the apps. A filter could automatically update the name in all SE source apps. I think that ISE...
David Broadfoot
david@...
Jul 1, 1999 7:20 am
708
How long can be an identifier in small eiffel? I need to know the maximum size of an id to allocate buffers in the debugger. Thanks in advance -- Jacob Navia...
jacob@...
Jul 1, 1999 8:32 am
709
... If you want to add a new kind of external routines for interfacing with C++, you will probably need to do the following (please correct me if I'm wrong): ...
Alain Le Guennec
Alain.Le_Guennec@...
Jul 1, 1999 9:18 am
710
... However, one may sometimes disagree with the way other applications or libraries (implementation and design) are realized. That's one of the reasons why we...
Olivier Zendra
Olivier.Zendra@...
Jul 1, 1999 10:37 am
711
Are there any limits to that length? Regards Friedrich...
Friedrich Dominicus
Friedrich.Dominicus@...
Jul 1, 1999 11:10 am
712
... Inside SmallEiffel : no Jacob just told me (by phone) that ANSI C limit is 256. Regards, -- ... Dominique COLNET -- UHP (Nancy 1) -- LORIA -- INRIA...
Dominique Colnet
Dominique.Colnet@...
Jul 1, 1999 12:11 pm
713
Hi, SmallEiffel-0.78 failed when trying to compile the following example. The problem seems related to precursor and once functions. SmallEiffel reports : line...
Francois Pennaneach
Francois.Pennaneach@...
Jul 1, 1999 12:49 pm
714
... The copyright status of interfaces is a much thornier issue with Eiffel than it is with other languages. Because it is possible to specify an interface in...
James Graves
ansible@...
Jul 1, 1999 2:28 pm
715
I have never seen the ISE notation for C++ externals, I'm curious how that works. Is the C++ object separate from the the Eiffel object or are they the same...
J. Scott Edwards
sedwards@...
Jul 1, 1999 2:39 pm
716
[proposal to rename SmallEiffel classes with SE_ prefix...] ... It wouldn't break _all_ the applications written in SE! Of course it's best to avoid breaking...
Roger Browne
roger@...
Jul 1, 1999 3:53 pm
717
... Related ISE documentation is here: * online manual on the C++ interface and Legacy++ http://www.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/language/cpp/page.html * (of related...
Geoff Eldridge
geldridg@...
Jul 1, 1999 3:57 pm
718
... I think the proposal was for everything not just LINKED_LIST. What about INTEGER? Cheers, Bob...
Bob Hutchison
hutch@...
Jul 1, 1999 4:06 pm
719
... INTEGER is part of ELKS 95 and should be equal on all compilers. It isn't but who really cares :(. Regards Friedrich...
Friedrich Dominicus
Friedrich.Dominicus@...
Jul 1, 1999 4:14 pm
720
INTEGER is part of the standard (ELKS-95) so there is no problem there (in theory). But there's not very much at all in the standard is there... David...
David Broadfoot
david@...
Jul 1, 1999 4:24 pm
721
... I don't recall hearing anyone ask you to remain compatible with anything but ELKS, but perhaps I missed it? ... Believe it or not, that might not be a bad...
Patrick Doyle
doylep@...
Jul 1, 1999 8:30 pm
722
... I assumed that ELKs classes would remain unchanged, and that only the SmallEiffel specific classes would be renamed....
Jim Weirich
jweirich@...
Jul 1, 1999 9:31 pm
723
... Patrick is right, as usual :) However, the "reality on the ground" is a bit less than ideal, and perhaps adding such warts to the class names is an...
Jeffrey L Straszheim
stimuli@...
Jul 1, 1999 10:47 pm
724
... Interestingly, John Lakos, of Mentor Graphics, argues that cluster-specific prefixing is an invaluable tool when writing large-scale software. And this is...
Loryn Jenkins
lorynj@...
Jul 2, 1999 12:06 am
725
... Wow! Thanks. This is a great help. Thanks for all your efforts. I really appreciate all that you have done to help SmallEiffel. -- Darren Hiebert...
Darren Hiebert
darren@...
Jul 2, 1999 4:01 am
726
... If only. :-) ... There was an idea I was toying around with a while back called "taxonomies" which are groups of classes. Taxonomies are built (much like...
Patrick Doyle
doylep@...
Jul 2, 1999 4:15 am
727
... Well, I have had only a very brief look at Eiffel/GTK more than 6 months ago, so I do not feel qualified to evaluate it or compare it with EiffelFox....
Darren Hiebert
darren@...
Jul 2, 1999 4:44 am
728
Darren Hiebert wrote: [ Very interesting things about EiffelFox, which sounds really nice ] ... That's great. I think I've also heard that GRAPE, which works...
Olivier Zendra
Olivier.Zendra@...
Jul 2, 1999 9:52 am
729
... ^^^^^^^^^^^ Surely not! I am not a lawyer. However, I do know that Borland *won* the court battle with Lotus over Quattro Pro using the same menu structure...
Loryn Jenkins
lorynj@...
Jul 2, 1999 10:02 am
730
... I've not heard of any recent successful court cases based on a claim of interface copyright. If that was happening, I'm sure we'd have seen Microsoft...
Roger Browne
roger@...
Jul 2, 1999 12:47 pm
731
... Isn't it what Legacy++ from ISE is all about? -- Eric Bezault mailto:ericb@... http://www.gobosoft.com...
Eric Bezault
ericb@...
Jul 2, 1999 1:49 pm
732
So what does Mr. Lakos advocate using? Or does he just shoot down the idea leaving you to wonder what to use? Loryn Jenkins <lorynj@...> on 07/01/99...
bstefani@...
Jul 2, 1999 2:04 pm
733
... What about using Swig for Eiffel ? -- Michel TRAIN mailto:mtrain@... Bell Laboratories Tel.: (+33) 299 842066...
Michel Train
mtrain@...
Jul 2, 1999 2:13 pm
734
User interfaces are not copyrightable. From my understanding in Linux, you can use the code interfaces to compile, and not link in the libraries until runtime,...
bstefani@...
Jul 2, 1999 2:22 pm
735
... Does SWIG-Eiffel deal with C++ as well or just C? -- Eric Bezault mailto:ericb@... http://www.gobosoft.com...
Eric Bezault
ericb@...
Jul 2, 1999 2:57 pm
736
... I have not used the specific EIffel version of SWIG l, but I used it for C++-Python binding, i.e., creating shadow python classes wrapped around C++ ...
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