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From: stephan@eiffel.UUCP (Philippe Stephan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Extension of STRING class
Summary: Use share from STRING
Message-ID: <342@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 90 17:24:39 GMT
References: <1990May25.000500.7492@asterix.drev.dnd.ca> <120019@gore.com> <1713@prles2.prl.philips.nl>
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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In article #869, Monique Roosen (roosen@cst.philips.nl) asks:

> Is there anybody out there in Eiffel-land who knows how to extend 
> the Eiffel STRING class with a feature for example ,
>          Tail(s:String_ext):String_ext to class STRING_EXT
> and still have the possibility for an assignment like 
>          n:STRING_EXT ;
>          n := "TEST".

Among the non-acrobatic ways to solve your problem, I would advise:

	n.share ("TEST");

instead of the assignment, which is of course impossible here.