Jan Skibinski writes:
 >      How come ISE Eiffel tools can handle all of this so
 >      nicely from a clean ascii, readable source code? As far
 >      as I can remember the only ugly looking comment line sits
 >      somewhere at the top and says something like this:
 >      "Document: $blaha $Date...". But the rest is pretty
 >      -- as it supposed to be.
 > 
 >      There are plenty of views that are given to Eiffel
 >      users as his/her choice. And all of them are produced
 >      from the same readable source code on the fly. So-called
 >      short form which ignores inheritance? Here you go!
 >      Flat form, fully blown API with inheritance. Flat-short
 >      form. Extracts of description of classes. Cross references.
 >      Lists of heirs, lists of parents. 

Could you give us a link to a description of this mechanism? I looked through
www.eiffel.com but could only find more general descriptions of the
language/compiler.

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