
               List of known bugs and unimplemented features
                                      
     * When you repeatedly inherit from a class that contains a routine
       that assigns to an attribute, and specify for the routine and
       attribute to be replicated twice, the routine fails to follow the
       replicated feature. That is, you have two routines assigning to
       the one attribute, instead of having two routines assigning to
       different attributes. This contravenes the discussion in ETL pp
       174-177. The following code illustrates the issue (it fails at
       run-time).
class BOARD
feature
   set_max_board_members (b: INTEGER) is
      do
         max := b;
      end
   max: INTEGER
end
class BOARD2
inherit
   BOARD
      rename
         set_max_board_members as set_min_board_members,
         max as min
      end
   BOARD
      select set_max_board_members
   end
end
class BOARD_ORGANISER
creation make
feature
   make is
      do
         !!board2;
         board2.set_max_board_members (3)
         board2.set_min_board_members (1)
         check
            board2.max = 3
         end
      end;
   board2: BOARD2;
end
       This bug is not easy to fix at all and also seems to be present in
       all commercial Eiffel compilers (if your commercial compiler can
       correctly execute this code, please drop us a note to advise us
       otherwise).
     * Some features of class BIT are not yet implemented when using long
       BIT sequences (i.e. more than 32 bits). All unimplemented features
       are reported at compile-time (please do not report these, except
       where you cannot work around them).
     * Command line arguments cannot be given as argument of the root
       procedure (not yet implemented). For the time being, you can use
       features argument_count and argument of class GENERAL.
     * Incomplete ELKS'95 compatibility... but we are still waiting the
       ELKS'2000 before working on this problem.
     * Features deep_clone and deep_equal of class GENERAL are not yet
       implemented for compile_to_jvm.
     * compile_to_jvm doesn't allow you to make applets.
     * dispose is not implemeented yet for expanded objects.
       
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   Copyright © Dominique COLNET and Suzanne COLLIN - [1]<colnet@loria.fr>
                     Last update: 05 May 1999, by OZ. 

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