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Road map to ISO/ECMA Eiffel

The Eiffel language is described by an international standard, ECMA standard 367, Eiffel: Analysis, Design and Programming Language. The first version was published in June of 2005; the current revision (revision 2) is from June, 2006. In November 2006 this standard was adopted by the International Standards Organization (ISO). The text of the ISO standard is identical to the text of the ECMA standard except for a few differences in front matter and typography. "ECMA/ISO Eiffel" denotes here the language defined by these standards.

The text can be found, among other places, at this location on the ECMA site.

While for a large part ECMA/ISO Eiffel consolidates the current language as