Re: Precedence : tests... and bugs ?

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/07/2013 09:04 AM, Julien Bect 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.

If you have a proposed patch to fix a bug, please file a bug report that 
explains what the problem is and attach the patch to the bug report. 
The patch tracker is really intended for posting patches that provide 
new features, not for posting patches that are related to bug reports.

Thanks,

jwe