1 Scope
  1.1 Overview
  1.2 "The Standard"
  1.3 Aspects covered
  1.4 Aspects not covered
2 Conformance
  2.1 Definition
  2.2 Compatibility and non-default options
  2.3 Departure from the Standard
3 Normative references
  3.1 Earlier Eiffel language specifications
  3.2 Eiffel Kernel Library
  3.3 Floating point number representation
  3.4 Character set: Unicode
  3.5 Character set: ASCII
  3.6 Phonetic alphabet
4 Definitions
5 Notational conventions
  5.1 Standard elements
  5.2 Normative elements
  5.3 Rules on definitions
  5.4 Use of defined terms
  5.5 Unfolded forms
  5.6 Language description
  5.7 Validity: "if and only if" rules
6 Acronyms and abbreviations
  6.1 Name of the language
  6.2 Pronunciation
7 General description
  7.1 Design principles
  7.2 Object-oriented design
  7.3 Classes
  7.4 Types
  7.5 Assertions
  7.6 Exceptions
  7.7 Genericity
  7.8 Inheritance
  7.9 Polymorphism and dynamic binding
  7.10 Combining genericity and inheritance
  7.11 Deferred classes
  7.12 Tuples and agents
  7.13 Type- and void-safety
  7.14 Putting a system together
8 Language specification
  8.1 General organization
  8.2 Syntax, validity and semantics
  8.3 The architecture of Eiffel software
  8.4 Classes
  8.5 Features
  8.6 The inheritance relation
  8.7 Clients and exports
  8.8 Routines
  8.9 Correctness and contracts
  8.10 Feature adaptation
  8.11 Types
  8.12 Genericity
  8.13 Tuples
  8.14 Conformance
  8.15 Convertibility
  8.16 Repeated inheritance
  8.17 Control structures
  8.18 Attributes
  8.19 Objects, values and entities
  8.20 Creating objects
  8.21 Comparing and duplicating objects
  8.22 Attaching values to entities
  8.23 Feature call
  8.24 Eradicating void calls
  8.25 Typing-related properties
  8.26 Exception handling
  8.27 Agents, iteration and introspection
  8.28 Expressions
  8.29 Constants
  8.30 Basic types
  8.31 Interfacing with C, C++ and other environments
  8.32 Lexical components