work in progress

class CHARACTER

ELKS 2002 standard (under discussion)

Proposed changes from ELKS 95 to ELKS 2002
Draft ELKS 2002 specification under development

ELKS 1995 standard (adopted)

The Eiffel Library Standard, Vintage 95 (4 June 1995, version 8)

Implementations

ISE Eiffel 4.5.020
Halstenbach Eiffel 3.1
SmallEiffel -0.77
Visual Eiffel 3.2 beta

Future discussions

A possible sequence for discussion of CHARACTER is:

code, hash_code
<=, >=, >, max, min, three_way_comparison
out
class invariant
comments and cosmetics

The following items are unlikely to be discussed and voted on before ELKS 2002 (this list may grow):

Unicode

Principles

Generally accepted:

The specification will use the current version of Eiffel.
The specification will support the concept of "basic specifiers".
No query is permitted to cause a visible side-effect.

Unresolved:

Vendor issues

This is a place to record vendor positions on the Vintage 2002 proposals, and also any vendor-specific technical issues that we have become aware of.

Discussion

Discussion of these proposals takes place at YahooGroups. Follow the discussions at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eiffel-nice-library/.