Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Perverse bug with gec?

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> This is a bit odd.
> 
> When testing one of the W3C XSLT test cases, I was getting an error
> from the XML parser when using ISE 6.1, but not when using gec.
> 
> The error is that it was unable to open an xml file - the reason,
> because the URI has the file name in lower case, but the actual file
> name is in upper case. And I'm running on Linux where file names are
> (for worse or for worse - even Microsoft can't get it wrong EVERY
> time) case sensitive.
> 
> I shall be reporting the error in the test case to the W3C, but I
> don't understand why when compiled with gec there is no error.

If you were using files the Gobo way, you would get "False" with
the following code:

   local
      l_file: KL_TEXT_INPUT_FILE
   do
      create l_file.make ("dummy")
      l_file.open_read
      print (l_file.is_open_read)

However, using files the ISE way, you will not get the exception as
expected. This is because when I implemented FILE in gec, there was
no support for exception yet. Now, it is possible to raise an exception
and rescue it in gec, so I guess I should change the implementation
class FILE to raise an exception in order to be more compatible with ISE.

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Eric Bezault
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