Standard ECMA-367
Eiffel: Analysis, Design and Programming Language
2nd edition (June 2006)
This document provides the full reference for the Eiffel language. Eiffel is a method of software construction and a language applicable to the analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of software systems. This Standard covers only the language, with an emphasis on the implementation aspects. As a consequence, the word “Eiffel” in the rest of this document is an abbreviation for “the Eiffel language”.
The Standard specifies:
- The form of legal basic constituents of Eiffel texts, or lexical properties of the language;
- The structure of legal Eiffel texts made of lexically legal constituents, or syntax properties;
- Supplementary restrictions imposed on syntactically legal Eiffel texts, or validity properties;
- The computational effect of executing valid Eiffel texts, or semantic properties;
- Some requirements on a conforming implementation of Eiffel, such as the ability to produce certain forms of automatic documentation.
The Standard does not specify:
- The requirements that a computing environment must meet to support the translation, execution and other handling of Eiffel texts;
- The semantic properties of an Eiffel text if it or its data exceed the capacity of a particular computing environment;
- The mechanisms for translating Eiffel texts into a form that can be executed in a computing environment;
- The mechanisms for starting the execution of the result of such a translation;
- Other mechanisms for handling Eiffel texts and interacting with users of the language.
The following file can be freely downloaded:
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This Ecma publication is also approved as ISO/IEC 25436.
The previous replaced "historical" edition of this Ecma Standard is available here.
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