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| − | + | As of this writing, January 21st 2016, the Eiffel language has slowly evolved over the years and added numerous new facilities. Initially, the changes were done by Eiffel Software while maintaining backward compatibility. Then, a major work was done between 2001 and 2005 to standardize the language which became an ECMA standard in 2005 ([http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-367.htm ECMA-367]) and an ISO standard in 2006 ([http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=42924 ISO/IEC 25436:2006]). That work established some constructs initially implemented in EiffelStudio and also introduced some new ones. Most of the changes introduced by the standardization have been implemented but there are quite a few remaining. In some cases, it is due to the ration cost/benefit of the implementation, in some others it is a breaking changes. | |
This page is going to list all the changes that needs to be done by Eiffel Software to conform to the standard which cover both the language but also the library facilities required to support the language specification. | This page is going to list all the changes that needs to be done by Eiffel Software to conform to the standard which cover both the language but also the library facilities required to support the language specification. | ||
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Introduction
As of this writing, January 21st 2016, the Eiffel language has slowly evolved over the years and added numerous new facilities. Initially, the changes were done by Eiffel Software while maintaining backward compatibility. Then, a major work was done between 2001 and 2005 to standardize the language which became an ECMA standard in 2005 (ECMA-367) and an ISO standard in 2006 (ISO/IEC 25436:2006). That work established some constructs initially implemented in EiffelStudio and also introduced some new ones. Most of the changes introduced by the standardization have been implemented but there are quite a few remaining. In some cases, it is due to the ration cost/benefit of the implementation, in some others it is a breaking changes.
This page is going to list all the changes that needs to be done by Eiffel Software to conform to the standard which cover both the language but also the library facilities required to support the language specification.
