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From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Enforcing assertions in Eiffel
Date: 1997/10/01
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In article <343174DF.CB2B2112@munich.netsurf.de> Joachim Durchholz <joachim.durchholz@munich.netsurf.de> writes:

> Remember Eiffel doesn't have a linker in the traditional sense;
> several important optimization steps (in particular inlining) are
> done only after pulling together all the required classes.  In fact
> Eiffel libraries might be nothing more than decorated abstract
> syntax trees.

That's basically the way many (most?) Ada83 implementations worked wrt
to this issue...

/Jon
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