Re: SE 2.2 beta #2 code generation

Frank Boehme <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:27:30 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.smalleiffel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Howard Thomson wrote:

> Yes, I had to do a substantial edit to fix update calls on expanded types to
> move to SE2.1, so I am aware of that as a possible cause, but I thought that
> all such changes to expanded update semantics had already happened for 2.1.

I think you are right. For example, this discussion

http://wwsympa.loria.fr/wwsympa/arc/smarteiffel/2004-11/msg00158.html

took place between beta-1 and beta-2 of SE-2.1. And it convinced me to
stay well away from mutable expanded types.

Frank

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