RE: Parenthesized Target Notation (was: Partial retraction)

>From: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <[email protected]>
>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.

Even if the standard removes the good ol' legible syntax, I bet the 
compilers will still support it for many years. Even ye olde evil !! create 
syntax is still supported.

- Peter Gummer