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Article #1557Modification of previous enhancement ideas
From: Norman K. Shelley
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 18:10
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 18:10
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New Desired Feature(s) Beyond Eiffel 2.2B (24Jan90) (Modified 14Feb90) Modifications to a previously posted message. >3.) When any failure occurs the line number in the source should be printed >out with the current failure message. > One Supporting Example (many others are possible): >If more than one inspect statement exists in a routine it becomes a guessing >game as to which inspect statement really failed. > >4.) Assertion labels should be strings so that spaces, uppercase, and lowercase >could be supported. This would allow for more readable failure messages. A modification of numbers three and four would be: 3.) When compiling a system in "make source code available" mode a failure ought to cause a viewer to appear with the appropriate source code in the viewer and an arrow pointing to the line which failed. 4.) Assertion labels can be misleading and if an assertion is modified the label should be probably be modified also. The label is redundant in many cases and the assertion is all one might need to see, so in addition to possible string assertion labels a system like that suggested in feature number three (modified) would be VERY adequate on assertion failures Norman Shelley Motorola - ATC 2200 W. Broadway AZ09/M350 Mesa, AZ 85202 ...!uunet!dover!atc!shelley shelley@atc.sps.mot.com (602) 962-2473
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!mcdphx!dover!digital!norm!shelley From: shelley@atc.sps.mot.com (Norman K. Shelley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel Subject: Modification of previous enhancement ideas Message-ID: <48a48a6e.12c9a@digital.sps.mot.com> Date: 14 Feb 90 18:10:01 GMT Sender: news@digital.sps.mot.com Reply-To: shelley@atc.sps.mot.com (Norman K. Shelley) Lines: 33