Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] GOBO and eXML

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

Berend de Boer wrote:
> 
> Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:
> 
> > I would suggest that you put all your external routines in
> > a class *_EXTERNALS along with routines without POINTERs
> > as arguments or results, and that you put this class in
> > clusters spec/[ise|se|ve|hact] (you can possibly use 'gepp').
> 
> I think #ifdefs are an absolutely bad way to manage code. Perhaps in a
> few low level classes I can live with them, but generally they
> generate a mess of used on a larger scale. So lets avoid them at all
> costs.
> 
> Perhaps put this in the guidelines as well:
> 1. gepp only to be used for ise/se/ve/hact distinctions.

I agree, and that's what I suggested above, nothing else.
Perhaps I was not clear enough.

> 2. deferred classes are a much better choice. gepp is completely
>    orthogonal to oo programming in almost any case. If you use it,
>    there is something wrong.

Exactly. And what is wrong? Just the fact that Eiffel compilers
are not compatible, right?

I don't think we disagree here.

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