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EiffelStudio 21.11.x Releases

Beta download: https://ftp.eiffel.com/pub/beta/

21.11.xx.yyyy (November Day 2021)

New features

• compiler: Supported a unified syntax to access loop cursor features inside an iteration form of a loop for both keyword-based and Unicode-based loop variants. The current item is accessed by the cursor name. The cursor feature is accessed by preceding the cursor name with the symbol @. For example:

∀ x: array ¦ (@ x.target_index \\ 2 = 0 ⇒ x > 0) -- All elements at even positions are positive.
 
        -- Print all elements of a table prefixed with their keys.
    across table as y loop
        print (@ y.key)
        print (": ")
        print (y)
        io.put_new_line
    end

The existing code can be updated with syntax_updater invoked with option -i.

• EiffelStudio: Added a source control management tool, supporting basic usage of Subversion and Git commands.

Improvements

• EiffelStudio: Supported completion for Unicode operators defined in standard classes.
• EiffelStudio: Added scripts (for Unixes) to open an external editor, to open a URL, and to open a terminal.
• EiffelStudio: Migrated to GTK3 on non-Windows platforms (Linux, macOS, etc.).
• EiffelStudio: Used user-controlled editor font in several tools.
• compiler: Extended the error report VWOE about using an operator with an operand of an unexpected type with the operator name and the associated feature name.
• compiler (pretty-printer): Taken any (Unicode) white-space characters into account when pretty-printing, not just a space character and a horizontal tabulation.
• compiler (pretty-printer): test#pretty015, test#pretty028 — Added a preference to control pretty printing of unindented comments (often used for commenting out code). Such comments can keep the (absent) indentation (the default) or be indented using the general rules.
• compiler (code analyzer): Disabled detection of the phrase "to do" unless it is written in capitals and without spaces, and enabled detection of "FIXME" in the comments.
• compiler (pretty-printer): Harmonized indentation for identifier lists, tagged note entries, export clauses, feature signatures, multi-line lists in parentheses, mandatory check instructions, agents, delayed operands, components of a loop expression, manifest arrays, actual arguments, nested feature calls.
• compiler: Used the same indentation for assertion subclauses with and without tags in flat forms and pretty-printer output.
• library (base): Added features set, clear, set_all and optimized features item and put in PACKED_BOOLEANS.
• library (base): Marked make_from_iterable as a conversion procedure from ARRAY for some container classes to enable initialization of the corresponding entities from manifest arrays of elements by reattachment. This enables writing

x: LINKED_LIST [INTEGER]
...
x := <<1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8>> -- Create a list with elements 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8.

• library (base): Added {HASH_TABLE}.make_from_iterable_tuples as a creation and conversion procedure from ARRAY to enable initialization from manifest arrays of tuples, for example:

y: HASH_TABLE [INTEGER, STRING]
...
y := <<[23, "Peter"], [19, "Mary"], [36, "Tom"], [32, "Alice"]>> -- Index by person name.

Bug fixes

• compiler: Fixed multiple bugs related to non-conforming inheritance, making the latter usable in production code:
  • test#noncon006 — inheritance from a frozen class triggers an error only when the corresponding parent is conforming;
  • bug#13556 (test#noncon007) — an explicit conforming inheritance path is not necessary;
  • bug#14381 (test#noncon010), bug#17619 (test#valid272) — selection of a replicated feature follows the conforming case;
  • bug#17300 (test#incr408) — incremental changes to feature assertions should be handled like in the conforming case;
  • bug#17315 (test#once020) — once-per-object features should be handled like in the conforming case;
  • bug#18021 (test#noncon024) — dead code removal should keep features of non-conforming parents if necessary;
  • test#noncon026 — non-conforming inheritance enables any changes to feature export status.
• compiler: Fixed a bug that may lead to showing wrong source code context when reported issues are associated with different files.
• compiler: Fixed a bug that in rare cases could lead to a crash or incorrect binaries when generating code for .NET.
• compiler: Fixed a bug that caused incorrect .NET code generation for a non-object call on an expanded base class.
• compiler: bug#15451 (test#attach055) — Fixed a bug that caused the compiler to report a non-existent VEVI error for the feature default when a reference class inherits from an expanded one.
• compiler (code analyzer): test#codeanalysis033 — Avoided false positives for unreachable code after a conditional instruction when only one branch of the instruction makes the successive code unreachable.
• compiler (pretty-printer): Corrected output for once manifest strings.
• compiler: test#attach131 — Fixed a bug in evaluation of the attachment status of an argument of a separate instruction.
• compiler: Prevented using inline local variables (iteration cursors, locals of separate instructions, object test locals) in old expressions.
• compiler: test#syntax076 — Removed a restriction on using forward and back-slashes for user-defined operators (the following restrictions still apply: \\, /, // can only be used as binary operators).

Feature removed

User changes

• compiler: Changed the semantics of non-conforming inheritance by removing automatic replication of inherited features.
• library (base): Replaced conforming inheritance with non-conforming one where possible and appropriate.
• compiler: test#attach130 — Added a validity check that the type of an inspect expression is attached when compiled in void-safe mode.
• compiler: Changed the defaults for the iteration loop syntax in newly created projects to access the current item by the cursor name.
• compiler: Changed to report an iteration form of a loop with keyword is as obsolete. The contemporary syntax is to use the loop with keyword as and symbol @ to access cursor features.
• compiler: Changed to report a user-defined operator @ as obsolete (in many cases, the bracket operator replaces it).

Developer changes

• library (json): Added a date time serializer.
• library (json): Added the possibility to use the reflector serializer with JSON_BASIC_SERIALIZATION.
• library (vision2): Updated the checkbox drawing, and added a new is_indeterminate state.
• library (EiffelWeb): Fixed WSF_REQUEST when searching for a table item with the name such as tb[k1][k2].
• library (cms): Improved the administration part, and followed recommendation for email sending.
• library (vision2): Switched to GTK3 on non-Windows platforms (to use GTK2, set the project variable vision_implementation to gtk2).