[gobo-eiffel-develop] Fresco

[Ian E. <ia...@no...>]

Last month I talked about Fresco Formatter - a source code formatter for
Eiffel that runs on Windows. I made the offer of a free user license to
Gobo team members if they'd beta test Fresco. Fresco is ready for
testing. Would those interested team members email me and I'll send them
details. I am going to be unavailable from 27th July for two weeks, so
let me know as soon as you can.

In my last email on the subject I mentioned a goboesque style spec in
the package that the formatter uses to format very closely to the layout
guidelines given in the Gobo guidelines. I have made some additions to
this to bring its formatting closer in line with existing gobo sources.
I have also developed a gobo_check style speck which checks for
adherence to a common syntax subset across the 4 Eiffel compilers. This
may not be total but covers such things as use !! (and not "create"), do
not use language extensions such as tuples, active expressions etc,
terminate class with class comment, include ";" to separate items in an
export list (to satisfy SmallEiffel). It also flags violations of some
of the additional Gobo style guidelines - such as whether indexing is in
correct format, feature clauses are commented and a few others.

Regards Ian Elliott