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Re: Precedence : tests... and bugs ?


From: Michael Goffioul
Subject: Re: Precedence : tests... and bugs ?
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 09:15:13 -0500

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:
Julien Bect wrote
>
> Michael Goffioul wrote
>> Precedence is established for classes, not objects.
>> Even when constructing a second object of a given class, you change the
>> precedence rules, this will affect all objects of the class, even those
>> already constructed. And if you define a precedence between 2 classes,
>> later on you can't redefine its inverse (afaik it'll generate an error).
> I have started to write tests for the precedence mechanism, since
> test/classes/test_classes.m contains very little about this.
>
> While doing so, I have stumbled upon several weird behaviours that look
> very much like bugs.
>
> I will keep investigating this issue, more on this later.

I have come to the conclusion that there are bugs in inferiorto() and
proposed a patch here :

https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?7946

Please tell me what you think about it.

Is there a description somewhere of the problem you're trying to fix?

Michael.


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