[Tutor] constructors
alan.gauld@bt.com
alan.gauld@bt.com
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:40:01 +0100
> | statements when an exception occurs you jump to the
> | end of that block with no way back in (I've always thought
> | a 'continue' for exception handlers would be nice!)
>
> Have you ever tried Eiffel? ... includes a
> 'retry' keyword that will restart the function.
Yes, I've played with the free ISE Eiffel edition.
I like a lot of it, but unfortunately some of the libraries
were a bit buggy at the time and it seemed a bit verbose
for many things. However the concepts were very sound.
> (not that I like Eiffel a lot, but it did get one or two things right)
I thought it got more right than wrong. The biggest failing
was not getting market share, and that was largely down to
being, in effect, a proprietary language with a single source
of supply.
If it achieves nothing else Eiffel will have produced one of
the best OO texts ever written...
Alan G.