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From: rick@tetrauk.UUCP (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Multiple creation routines.
Message-ID: <1051@tetrauk.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 90 09:05:14 GMT
References: <4106@tantalum.UUCP> <1045@tetrauk.UUCP> <4212@tantalum.UUCP> <2295@enea.se>
Reply-To: rick@tetrauk.UUCP (Rick Jones)
Organization: Tetra Ltd., Maidenhead, UK
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[after some net discussion ...]
In article <2295@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>
>Wait guys! Dr. has Meyer already announced this as a coming
>change in Eiffel 3.0. I just dug up the article in my binder.

I had heard that Bertrand Meyer was going to propose some changes to object
creation for version 3, but I didn't know it had ever got as far as hard text.

I would be very interested to see a copy of the whole proposal - could I
suggest that Bertrand (or someone on his behalf - I know he's a busy man) post
the proposal to the newsgroup.  Perhaps he has made some revisions to the idea
since the initial circulation?

I always welcome change if it's for the better, and with advance warning of
likely future direction it's not too difficult to design for change so that
these things can be painlessly incorporated when they arrive.

-- 
Rick Jones
Tetra Ltd.  Maidenhead, 	Was it something important?  Maybe not
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rick@tetrauk.uucp					-- Bob Dylan