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From: jos@cs.vu.nl (Jos Warmer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: indexing clause
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Date: 16 Mar 90 11:14:29 GMT
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Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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The indexing clause accepts only elementary items (integers, identifiers,
etc..) sepatrated by commas.  It does not accept strings, they are probably
not elementary.
However, the restriction to identifiers and/or integers is sometimes
very awkward.

For example, I want one of the indexes to be the revision number.
I use rcs for revision control.
The revision is automatically given by rcs, in a predefined format.
Take for example class index:

	indexing
		Author  : Jos, Warmer
		revision: "$,Revision: 1.2 $"

	class INDEX
	feature
	end;

Also, I don't like to write my name with an underscore in it as Jos_Warmer,
so I might rather use it as a string "Jos Warmer".

Is there a strong reason for not allowing strings in the index clause ?
I would very much like to use them.

                           Jos Warmer
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