Re: Conformance of literals to attached arguments

Eric Bezault <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.gobo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> I just came across this:
> 
> Error code: VUAR(2)
> Type error: non-conforming actual argument in feature call. 
> What to do: make sure that type of actual argument conforms to type
>   of corresponding formal argument. 
> 
> Class: ST_TEST_ST_STRING
> Feature: test_substring
> Called feature: make_from_string (a_string: !STRING_GENERAL) from ST_STRING
> Argument name: a_string
> Argument position: 1
> Actual argument type: STRING_8
> Formal argument type: !STRING_GENERAL
> Line: 57
>       do
> ->      create l_32.make_from_string ("A test string")
> 
> ISE 6.1.
> 
> It astonishes me. Why doesn't a literal of type STRING_8 conform to
> !STRING_GENERAL ?

Let's hear what Manu has to say about that.
In the meantime you might try and see what you get with 6.2.

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Eric Bezault
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