Re: Oh my! Re: ECMA standard or forking the language?
Dominique Colnet <[email protected]>
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José Bollo wrote: > > it would be a good research project to have an open compiler architecture that > can allow some language variants. This is what we have already done for the old << ... >> ARRAY notation. Actually, it depends of the variant. If the variant is not too strange, we will try to continue the support. > > i presume that the reason why SE team is not interested in having > compatibilities options like -etl2 -etl3 -se1 -se2 -ecma is that they miss > time. Not only a question of time. If we do not agree with a technical choice, we just drop the stuff. Some variant my be dangerous. Best regards, -- -------------------------------------------------------------- [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