Eiffel: The Language

Meyer, Bertrand

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0132479257 ISBN 13: 9780132479257

Casa editrice: Prentice Hall, 1992

Quickly emerging as the language of choice for developers of quality software, this guide explains how the Eiffel language combines rigorous software engineering principles with advanced object-oriented techniques. It reveals the simplicity, consistency, and blend of various powerful mechanisms in Eiffel, including: an object-oriented structure based on classes ; multiple and repeated inheritance information hiding assertions to guarantee, document, and test the correctness of software components; strong typing backed by support for generic classes; dynamic binding a highly dynamic run-time model supporting garbage collection renaming and redefinition facilities . . . disciplined exception handling and support for persistent objects. As both an implementation language and a high-level notation for analysis and design, Eiffel emphasizes the industrial production of reusable software components. Written for software designers, analysts, and programmers.

Product Description:

This book focuses on the Eiffel itself rather than the method. It provides a complete description of the entire language. Meyer has made a conscious effort to renew the genre of programming language descriptions by writing a single-threaded presentation to serve both as pedagogical description of the Eiffel language and as a self-contained reference manual. Readers with little or no experience of Eiffel should be able to learn Eiffel by sequential reading of the book. The book includes: a top-down presentation of concepts where the overall organisation of software systems written in Eiffel is presented first; coverage of the most important object-oriented techniques - multiple inheritance, genericity and others, and a lower-level coverage of the aspects of Eiffel.