RE: Parenthesized Target Notation (was: Partial retraction)

"Richard A. O'Keefe" <[email protected]> Thu, 5 May 2005 16:02:47 +1200 (NZST)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.smalleiffel
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"Brian Yan" <[email protected]> wrote:
	What is the problem then?
	If we follow the rules you outlined, there seems to be no problem and
	no need to invent the barred parentheses (| ... |).
	
Exactly so.
The point is that the ECMA standard *has* invented the barred
parentheses and has *also* removed support for the old syntax.
So instead of
	('%N').code
you *must*, in ECMA Eiffel, write
	(|'%N'|).code
and yet this fairly drastic change to the syntax fixes only this
one special case of the general problem of semicolons not being
as optional as some would like.