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Eiffel Characteristics

• Has primitive types and objects

• All objects get three operations, copy, clone, and equal

• Methods are called routines

• Instance variables are called attributes

• The routines and attributes of a class are together called its features

• Object creation is done with an operator (!!)

• Constructors are defined in a creation clause, and are explicitly called in the statement in which an object is created