Re: Getting rid of select

> Hi Colin,
>
>  I can see that in classes XM_XSLT_GROUP_NODE_ITERATOR and
>  XM_XSLT_SORTED_GROUP_NODE_ITERATOR you are using 'select'.
>  Apart from UC_STRING, these are the only two occurrences of
>  'select' in Gobo. Right from the start I tried to avoid using
>  'select' because it was not working correctly when compiled
>  with SmartEiffel. OK, we don't care about SmartEiffel anymore,
>  but now there is a push from ECMA to get rid of 'select'.
>  So I was wondering why you used 'select' in these classes.
>  Was it just because the features involved were attributes
>  and one cannot undefine an attribute (to have it merged with
>  the version from the other inheritance branch)? If this is
>  the reason, then there is a way to merge two attributes coming
>  from two different parents. You just have to redefine this
>  attribute in both inheritance branches:
>
>  class C
>  inherit
>      A
>         redefine
>            attr
>         end
>      B
>         redefine
>            attr
>         end
>  feature
>      attr: TYPE
>           -- ...
>  end
>
>  --
>  Eric Bezault
>  mailto:ericb@...
>  http://www.gobosoft.com
>
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