Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Adding tree support to gobo

[Einar K. <eka...@cs...>]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Eric Bezault wrote:

> Einar Karttunen wrote:
> >
> > I changed the naming to a more eiffelish format. Hope you like
> > DS_LINKED_BINARY_SEARCH_TREE instead of DS_LBST.
>
> I sounds better indeed.
But is not so nice to write...

>
> > > There is a 'end' missing after `set_parent'. BTW, the name
> > Small eiffel doesn't complain for this,
>
> There was no warnings or anything like that?
none. It complains that copy is deferred in DS_SPLAY_TREE but nothing
else.

> PS: Don't be put off by my remarks about programming styles.
> I'm from a school of thoughts where it is considered that
> cosmetics matters as much as functionality in reusable
> library classes (see OOSC2 page 875). Sven Ehrke is already
> one of my martyrs ;-)
>
No problem. Ny backround is in C++ and perl, which I think both are very
cosmetic indeed. However I have noticed that the eiffel(ish|que) way of
doing things has many advantages.

I will probably next work on implementing pre/postorder cursors.

- Einar Karttunen