Notes
1The EA version used to create this book was actually 9.3 (build 930). This book’s version reflects changes from 10.0 (build 1006) and changes from 11.0 (build 1103) are currently being integrated. However, most of the references are also valid for earlier versions of EA. ↩
3I really loathe writing such legal blurb since it should be obvious. By the way: German law applies! (Does that change anything?)↩
4I will not conceal various cons of the product. But with most of them you can live. Just take them as a challenge.↩
5I have not tested the new debugger but what I have seen from a Sparx demo looked promising.↩
6Actually I had chosen Perl as scripting language for myself. Together with the Komodo IDE debugging was real fun. Additionally I had build a framework to run Perl scripts as add-in from within EA. You can find more information here: http://community.sparxsystems.com/resources/scripts/extending-ea-perl↩
7Actually in most cases a primitive like short or long is supplied.↩
8Basically I denote this using EBNF. If you don’t know what this is good for, just skip this information. You will be able to read this document without it. ↩
9Quite a number of secrets/hidden features are already explained in this book. As it is in the state of being written it is not complete and thus misses still some information. Over time this gap shall be closed so you can use this book not only for learning but also as a reference for the advanced use of EA.↩
10For me using EA for 20 years that means in the last couple of years - somewhere around V9.3 or so. I don’t remember exactly.↩
11You should refer to the Ordering section once you are familiar with the details.↩
12Actually I haven’t tested this with a case insensitive repository. It might turn out that those behave different.↩
13Consider reporting any of them as bug as I did not send a single one.↩
14I might document these in a future version of this book.↩
15You may consult http://www.connectionstrings.com/ to see how such a string is constructed.↩
16Theoretically this varies over \(2^{16*8} = 2^{128} \approx 3*10^{38} \) which means that you can number amounts of \(3*10^{-14}\) grams (much less than a dust grain) uniquely for the whole earth.↩