Re: ECMA standard or forking the language?
Colnet Dominique <[email protected]>
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Peter Gummer wrote: > On 28/04/2005, at 6:54 PM, Colnet Dominique wrote: >> Also note that ISE has its own deviations from the standard. > What are you referring to, Dominique? No such deviations come to my mind. The .net interface is one example. But it is clear that ISE has less deviation from ECMA standard because of ECMA members. Don't want to flame, but it is a matter of fact. > > Of course they haven't yet implemented many of the new things in the > standard, or removed some old things that the standard removes, but as > far as I'm aware they intend to. > > I'm very surprised by your announcement, given that six months ago when > people here were accusing you of just this you protested that you were > merely implementing ETL3. We know that the fork was unavoidable since more than 6 months actually. Modifications of the ECMA document has also convinced us to do so. The brute question of yesterday has just fire my reaction. Again, don't be afraid, we will just continue our work. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] -- IUT (Nancy 2) -- INRIA Lorraine http://SmartEiffel.loria.fr -- The GNU Eiffel Compiler POST: Loria, B.P. 239,54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy Cedex, FRANCE Voice:+33 0383913140 Mobile: +33 0665362381 Fax:+33 0383581701