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classes ARRAY and STRING

Speficiation Style

25 October 1999

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Which specification style do you prefer for the recursive specifications of ARRAY and STRING?

subarray/substring or similar (example at http://www.eiffel.demon.co.uk/nice/array/42.html)
head/tail or similar (example at http://www.eiffel.demon.co.uk/nice/array/148.html)

Please select one of the following:

Strongly prefer subarray/substring
Prefer subarray/substring
Prefer head/tail
Strongly prefer head/tail
Don't mind (happy either way)
Abstain (not happy either way)

Result

A preference was expressed for the subarray/substring style.

Note

This was an indicative vote only - it has no direct effect, but serves instead as a guideline for proposal authors.

Voting details

votes cast at eGroups:

Prefer subarray/substring
                sergei_ivanov@object-tools.com
                steinman@sco.edu
                joachim.durchholz@halstenbach.de
                jcm@mstr.hgc.edu
                tking@insystems.com
                saunders@wchat.on.ca
Don't mind (happy either way)
                andreas.leitner@teleweb.at
                chcouder@club-internet.fr
                simonwillcocks@enterprise.net
                ericb@gobosoft.com
                jweirich@one.net
Prefer head/tail
                franck.arnaud@omgroup.com
                genepi@sympatico.ca
                kwaxer@aha.ru

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