Adding a language construct

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Checklist for adding a language construct to EiffelStudio (order not particularly significant).

  • Announce the change so that others know what's happening!
  • Check ISO/ECMA standard, work of ECMA committee
  • If this is an experimental change, make sure there is a clear rationale available for consultation.
  • Lexical changes
  • Syntax changes: parser
  • New validity rules and their four-letter codes, or modifications (including additions) to existing validity rules
  • Type checking
  • Changes to AST structure (Abstract Syntax Tree)
  • Code generation
  • Runtime support
  • Editor support
  • Automatic completion (also in editor)
  • New icons (or modified existing icons) associated with the new construct
  • Debugger
  • Metrics tool
  • Testing Framework
  • EiffelStudio views: what survives of the new construct in the Contract View and others?
  • Effect on external code; in particular, how will the new construct appear to the via external features, CECIL, .NET, external features?
  • Documentation update, in particular
  • Examples of use, covering both basic and advanced usage, and integrated into the regression test suite for the compiler (EiffelWeasel)
  • Diagram tool (including: what are the BON and UML notations for the new construct)?

Original version from material by Alexander Kogtenkov and Bertrand Meyer

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