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From: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: class environment, suffix .env
Message-ID: <263@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 22:16:30 GMT
References: <5193@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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In <5193@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, wongkc@sor.CS.ColoState.Edu (kam chooi wong)
notes an undocumented rule enforced by the current implementation:
files used to store persistent objects (through the mechanisms of
class ENVIRONMENT) must have a name finishing with ``.env''.

He is indeed correct. Although the rule initially had a justification,
it should by now have been dropped. This is a case where the
documentation was updated ahead of the software itself...

For the time being environment files still will have to have ``.env''
names. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
-- 
-- Bertrand Meyer
bertrand@eiffel.com