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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: <144@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 89 19:09:05 GMT
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Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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From <6121@atlantis.UUCP> by keithc@atlantis.UUCP (Keith Campbell):

> [It] is not always possible [to let an obsolete feature remain available
> under a different name]. In fact, it is not possible to rename the
> feature in your window example: Create.  What do we do now?


	Indeed this does not work for Create this there is exactly one Create
procedure per class.

	A later posting on changes planned for Eiffel version 3 (late 1989)
will explain plans for removing this requirement on Create
procedures. Currently, however, if the interface of Create is changed
there is now way to avoid adapting clients.
-- 

-- Bertrand Meyer
bertrand@eiffel.com