Designing a programming language is an difficult task. During my time in academia, I had the great pleasure to meet some language designers. Listening to their stories is highly educating. Things that look simple or arbitrary at first become deep insights into the way humans understand problems and model solutions. There is nothing trivial in deciding names of keywords or punctuation.

A new feature of the 6.1 release of EiffelStudio appears in the Console tool. Basically in addition of what you could do before, you can also insert the following:

1. {A}
2. @{A}
3. {A}.f

where A is an Eiffel class and f a feature of A.

The meanings are:

1. {A}: location of a file containing a copy of the text of class A.