Re: String constants and once functions

Eric Bezault <ericb-D6Qt/9opevxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.gobo.general
Organization Gobo
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paolo Redaelli wrote:
> What are the differences between this two features?
> 
> feature -- String constants
> 
> 	foo: STRING is "Foo is nice"
> 		-- foo string
> 
> 	foo_once: STRING is
> 			-- foo string implemented as an once function
> 		once
> 			Result := "Foo is nice and made once"
> 		end
> 
> I'm not sure: they should be almost the same shouldn't them?

Yes, "almost".

The difference is that you can redefine `foo_once' in a
descendant class.

-- 
Eric Bezault
mailto:ericb-D6Qt/9opevxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
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