Re: Parenthesized Target Notation
Colnet Dominique <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.smalleiffel |
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Peter Gummer wrote:
>> 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.
We will discuss this point in the next SmartEiffel team meeting. I am quite
sure that the SmartEiffel team will decide not to implement the stupid
(|...|) syntax.
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