Eiffel Glossary

The world of Eiffel tends to adopt very special meanings to certain terms. Please add you own words and definitions. Please try to keep the list sorted alphabetically.

Attribute 

A name/type pair that will lead to a corresponding field in the instances of the class.

Cluster 

A group of classes that home something in common. Normally all these classes are stored in one directory.

Feature 

A common term for routines and attributes that make up the class.

Routine 

A piece of code that is associated with a class and may be executed on its instances.