Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!atlantis!keithc
From: keithc@atlantis.UUCP (Keith Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: The ``obsolete'' facility in Eiffel 2.2
Message-ID: <6121@atlantis.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 12:29:24 GMT
References: <138@eiffel.UUCP> <6099@atlantis.UUCP> <143@eiffel.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithc@cognos.UUCP (Keith Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <143@eiffel.UUCP> bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer) writes:
->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.

This is not always possible.  In fact, it is not possible to rename the
feature in your window example: Create.  What do we do now?

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