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From: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Questions
Message-ID: <220@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 02:36:14 GMT
References: <1989Dec19.165420.7477@cs.tcd.ie> <1822@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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In article <1822@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, mbr6316@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.B. Robin)
raises a number of interesting questions with respect to Create, Clone,
Forget etc.

We (the design and implementation group at Interactive) essentially agree
with his (?) comments. There is indeed a need to separate operations
on references from operations on objects. We think that we have solved
all these issues, for the moment on paper, as part as the ongoing
language cleanup. This is all described in the version of
``Eiffel: The Language'' to be published soon by Prentice-Hall.
-- 
-- Bertrand Meyer
bertrand@eiffel.com