An Operational Semantics for the Eiffel Language
Abstract
This paper formally describes the dynamic semantic of the Eiffel language (Eiffel parallel). Eiffel is a parallel extension of Eiffel language based on passive and active objects, asynchronous communication and wait-by-necessity. In this semantics we use formal specifications of inheritance and dynamic binding which we have defined in Natural Semantics for the Eiffel language. While in the framework of Natural Semantics (big-step semantics), we specify the \ep\/ semantics in the SOS style (small-step semantics). >From this specification we automatically generate a programming environment for Eiffel.