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From: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: The ``obsolete'' facility in Eiffel 2.2
Message-ID: <143@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 89 14:09:23 GMT
References: <138@eiffel.UUCP> <6099@atlantis.UUCP>
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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From <6099@atlantis.UUCP> by keithc@atlantis.UUCP (Keith Campbell):

 > Is the old version of [a routine being replaced by a version with a
 > different interface] still available? If so, this violates
 > the rule that a class has at most one
 > feature of a given name.  If not, it would seem that in this case the
 > ``obsolete'' facility does nothing for the "early" users of this class.

	Clearly in this case the new feature should have a different name.
This should have been explained clearly in my original note.
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-- Bertrand Meyer
bertrand@eiffel.com