Re: time / update problem

Frederic Merizen wrote:
> I don't know for sure (I wasn't around when the language was designed either). 
> Maybe they wanted
> 
> 	x.y.cmd
> 
> to behave consistently with
> 
> 	local_y := x.y
> 	local_y.cmd
> 
Good guess.
It was the rationale.
> 
> Well, yeah. I'd guess most experienced Eiffel programmers were bitten by that 
> behaviour at least once. Don't really know what to say here.
What is sure is that we will find a solution to this problem (not
for release 2.2).
This pitfall is really too dangerous (and we already got it a
few times here).
Note for SmartEiffel developpers: remember our STATUS class.
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