Gobo Eiffel Tools Library

The Gobo Eiffel Tools Library is an Eiffel class library useful for writing tools that expect Eiffel source code as input. It provides Ace and Xace parsers, an Eiffel parser which generates Abstract Syntax Trees, and numerous processors traversing these ASTs to perform code analysis using various compilation techniques. Tools that can take advantage of this library are Eiffel compilers and interpreters, lint-like tools, pretty-printers or flat-short form generators, test tools, ctags-like tools, Eiffel reflection generators, Eiffel preprocessing tools, and more.

This documentation is structured as follows:

Ace Files

Purpose, syntax and semantics of Ace files.

ECF Files

Purpose, syntax and semantics of ECF files.

Xace Files

Purpose, syntax and semantics of Xace files.

Eiffel Built-in Routines

How to add a new Eiffel built-in routine.

Applications

Examples of applications based on this library.

Limitations

Limitations, bugs and other deficiencies.

See Also

Bibliographical references, related resources and acknowledgments.

Downloading Instructions

License agreement and downloading instructions.

Copyright © 2006, Eric Bezault mailto:ericb@gobosoft.com http://www.gobosoft.com Last Updated: 14 May 2010