Library interface

Note: this documentation is not meant to replace the eiffeldoc pages.

The existing libraries in 2.1

• lib/kernel: the few classes that the compiler directly depend upon
• lib/abilities: add features to your classes that other library classes may depend upon
• lib/io: the input-output system, complete with some back-ends and a filter system
• lib/storage: the many containers (collections, lists, sets and so on)
• lib/iterator: the design pattern that allows container traversal
• lib/sorting: to sort containers
• lib/numeric: anything about numbers: computer-oriented (INTEGER) or real math-oriented (NUMBER)
• lib/random: to generate random numbers
• lib/string: 8-bit and unicode characters and strings
• lib/unicode: unicode parsing
• lib/time: what time is it?
• lib/sequencer: interleaving computations (no threads involved)
• lib/signal: using agents to signal events
• lib/vision: graphical interfaces
• lib/misc: miscellany

The upcoming libraries in 2.2

All the 2.1 libraries, plus:

• lib/abilities: new abilities (including STORABLE)
• lib/storage: a new storage system: repositories that can store/retrieve STORABLEs
• lib/net: network access; write an HTTP server in a few lines
• lib/html: HTML input-output
• lib/xml: an XML parser
• lib/exec: start and control an external process, complete with its standard streams
• lib/design_patterns: some easily coded design patterns (not sure this one will stay as is)