Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Handling end of line stuff.

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

Christian Couder wrote:
> 
> Ok, so I agree with you that put_line features are a good thing, but I
> don't think they solve the whole problem.
> 
> For example if you want to set a multi-line message in a message box,
> you can use one of the following :
> 
> 1)
> 
> msg_box.set_msg(error_header + eol + error_msg + eol + help_msg)
> 
> 2)
> 
> msg_box.set_msg(error_header + "%N" + error_msg + "%N" + help_msg)
> 
> 3)
> 
> my_msg.append_line(error_header)
> my_msg.append_line(error_msg)
> my_msg.append_string(help_msg)
> msg_box.set_msg(my_msg)
> 
> >From this example you can see that 1) is both very short and likely to
> be portable, while 2) is not likely to be portable and 3) is not short.

But I would rather use 3) anyway: I don't want to have
to create zillion objects just to display a message.

And apparently your 'eol' is part of ANY, so I think that
this should rather be discussed in NICE and be adopted by
the Eiffel compilers since they have better ways to handle
platform-dependent functionalities than library writers.

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