Re: SmartEiffel shortcomings?

Wolfgang Jansen <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:39:10 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.smalleiffel
Organization University of Potsdam, Institute of Informatics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Philippe Ribet wrote:

> Wolfgang Jansen wrote:
>
>> Do you know that I published introspection, storable, and
>> evaluation and printing of expressions from the debugger
>> more than two years ago?
>
>
> Yes. Our first priority was to deeply rewrite compiler internals.
>
So, why did you the unnecessary repeated work after (or parallel to)
rewriting the compiler?

>> So, the unnessecary repeated work
>> has been done by the SE developers.
>
>
> What do you think of the design of introspection and storable?
>
Mine or yours?

>> By the way, my old version of STORABLE works very well
>> while yours produces terrible errors.
>
>
> Fixing bugs from the first version is not really surprising. You can 
> submit bug reports and/or patches if you want.
>
Have you ever compiled the examples in the tutorial/storable directory?
I did not expect that users must write bug reports to show
that tutorial examples do not compile. Is it not your duty to check
that at least the tutorials are working?

WJ