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From: jellinghaus-robert@CS.Yale.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Release 2.2 details wanted
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Date: 20 Apr 89 18:42:15 GMT
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Reply-To: jellinghaus-robert@CS.Yale.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus)
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This weekend in Paris is the worldwide Eiffel meeting, at which Eiffel 2.2
will be announced.  Over the last couple of months, there have been mentions
of many changes from 2.1 to 2.2, ranging from expanded libraries (including
"parser" classes and X11R3 support) to new type extensions (expanded
classes) and new language constructs (the case statement, and the Accept
feature).  My question is:

When will there be a formal announcement of what exactly all these changes
are, and how they are used?  Will there be a new edition of OOSC?  Or will
there simply be a very long Champ-de-Mars?  Will all the relevant infor-
mation make it into this newsgroup, or will we have to wait for some
journal article or other?

I would also like to see the final versions of the "Eiffel Types" and the
"Complete Rules to Static Typing in Eiffel" documents.  The draft of the
former was posted here about a month ago, and the latter was mailed by
Bertrand Meyer to various interested parties (anyone got a copy they could
send me?).  Will these two documents be posted along with the rest of the
2.2 information?

All of this is very necessary information for all Eiffel aficionados, and
this newsgroup is the ideal place to release it all.  Please, ISE, if you
have any sort of machine-readable information about the new Eiffel, upload
it to the net!  Any and all news will be appreciated!

Thanks.

Rob Jellinghaus                | "Next time you see a lie being spread or a
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