bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer) (07/30/90)
Archive-name: eiffel-archive/29-Jul-90 Original-posting-by: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer) Original-subject: Re: Inheritance and information hiding Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In <1990Jul27.163928.5886@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, hoelzle@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Urs Hoelzle) asks > Could someone please mail me these articles [about problems in > Eiffel type checking]? In <KAPLAN.90Jul27123145@scooby.cs.umass.edu> Alan Kaplan asks whether there is any publicly available archive of comp.lang.eiffel. Although Interactive Software Engineering has a complete (we think) record of the newsgroup, we are not able to provide a publicly available archive (through anonymous FTP or something of the sort), and most likely will not be in the near future. This is regrettable since there have been many insightful postings on topics that keep coming up in queries made by people who become interested in Eiffel and related issues. It is hard for us to keep on mailing individual copies of old postings to many people. I have been thinking of preparing a printed ``comp.lang.eiffel's greatest hit'' collection, but this is a somewhat lower priority project, which also involves asking posters' permission and other hassles. If any university or other institution is equipped and willing to support a publicly available archive of future postings, we will be glad to provide it with a full copy of our records of the newsgroup, to make sure that the archive is complete. In the meantime, since questions about the type system come up so frequently, and my July 1989 article, not publicly available elsewhere, is the least unsatisfactory answer I can give, I am reposting it, together with a companion article on ``Eiffel types''. See next three postings. -- Bertrand Meyer bertrand@eiffel.com