Eiffel Glossary
The world of Eiffel tends to adopt very special meaning 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.
