I don't know if y'all review these old posts... I decided to revisit this problem. I removed the modifications to NATURAL (i.e. no overrides) and also tried with version 20.05 (with updated alias syntax). I get the same errors, so these problems have nothing to do with my "modifications of basic classes". So, if you have time I would really appreciate someone trying to run autotest on feature `is_negative' (using 19.05) and see what I am missing. I appreciate the work EiffelSoftware does to provide EiffelStudio. Thanks again. jjj