PR# 16720 Strange syntax errors

Problem Report Summary

Submitter: manus_eiffel

Category: Compiler

Priority: Medium

Date: 2010/04/27

Class: Bug

Severity: Serious

Number: 16720

Release: 6.6.8.2341

Confidential: No

Status: Open

Responsible:

Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.342.9 Safari/533.2

Synopsis: Strange syntax errors

Description

I've been compiling successfully a project using the default mode of 6.6 (i.e. experimental) when I realized that this project had to be compiled in compatible mode. When I did that, the project did not compile anymore and got some syntax errors in one of the library I was using. That library ECF had version 1-6-0 but did not specify any syntax level. After fixing the level to transitional, then I was able to compile.

Do we set any default in the ECF interpretation when compiled in `compatible' mode? Not that this code compiled fine with 6.5 when not using the `compatible' mode.

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