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Proposal to have stateless routines to use the equal sign of constants, i.e.
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Stateless is first a semantic notion, meaning that a stateless feature does not refer to any state. To show that property to the clients, we add a syntactical notation based on the notion of constants in Eiffel, this looks like:
  
 
<e>f (a: STRING): SOME_TYPE =
 
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Latest revision as of 06:13, 29 June 2011


Stateless is first a semantic notion, meaning that a stateless feature does not refer to any state. To show that property to the clients, we add a syntactical notation based on the notion of constants in Eiffel, this looks like: 

f (a: STRING): SOME_TYPE =
    do
        create Result.make (a)
        ...
    end

With some validity rules:

  • only unqualified calls to stateless features are permitted.

With some validity rules for redefinition:

  • once a routine is stateless its redefinitions have to be stateless.
  • a stateful routine can become stateless.
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