EiffelStudio 7.2 Releases

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Below are not the release notes of EiffelStudio. It is the change log of EiffelStudio intermediate releases and the most important changes are highlighted in green or in red (for breaking changes). The release notes of EiffelStudio can be found at the following URL. You can also download the latest revision here. Information about other version can be found under Category:Releases.

EiffelStudio 7.2.x Releases

7.2.x.y (...)

New features

Improvements

  • EiffelStudio: Added VWAB to the list of filtered warning messages.
  • EiffelStudio: Slightly improved reading of the error messages for VBAC(3), VBAR(2), VUTA(2).
  • library (base): Added a new class REPEATABLE for the objects that can iterate over they own state.
  • example (scoop): Simplified dining philosophers example and used the class REPEATABLE for a philosopher's life cycle.

Feature removed

Bug fixes

  • library (WEL): Fixed a bug in {WEL_FONT}.string_size_extended that could cause access on an invalid index if the string contained characters that are mapped to the surrogate pairs in UTF-16.
  • EiffelStudio: Corrected a pretty printer to remove a temporary file after prettifying source code.
  • EiffelStudio: bug#17588 - Supported prettyfing of source code containing Unicode characters.

User changes

  • compiler: banned the following syntax for types in object creation using the old syntax of object creation:
	! attached like ... !
	! detachable like .... !
	! attached separate like ... !
	! detachable separate like .... !
  • compiler: banned the following syntax for using the old attachment marks with the new `separate' keywords:
	! separate ... 
	? separate ...

Developer changes