Re: Parenthesized Target Notation (was: Partial retraction)

Dominique Colnet <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.smalleiffel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Raphael Mack wrote:
> On 2005-05-09 11:49:05 +0200 [email protected] wrote:

> 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?
To remove the ugly obsolete "like argument" which was polluting the 
internal of the compiler. Doing so we are also working for the
language simplification.
> 
> (BTW I tried to compile gobo-cvs with a cvs of SE and it worked with 
> mainly after replacing clone() by .twin)
Yes this is the way to go because clone is not object-oriented.
Most of us do agree on that point since a very long time.
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