Re: Re: Parenthesized Target Notation (was: Partial retraction)

On 2005-05-09 11:49:05 +0200 [email protected] wrote:

> Eric Bezault wrote:
>> Now, even if ECMA Eiffel had no single backward incompatibility there
>> is no doubt that SmartEiffel would not support it anyway.
> 
> I hope your words went beyond your thoughts. Do you belong to the 
> SmartEiffel 
> core team?
> 
> You have no doubts? Well I do.
> 
> 
>> should save my energy to try to make Gobo work with SE 2.2.
> 
> What are your problems with 2.2? It does not change that much from 
> 2.1, apart 
> from adding new libraries and fixing bugs. Did I miss something?

at least the removeal of feature clone() - which was obsolete since 
aug 28 2004. I personally think that this time is MUCH too short. 
What's the reason for beeing so strict?

(BTW I tried to compile gobo-cvs with a cvs of SE and it worked with 
mainly after replacing clone() by .twin)

Raphael