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Christian Couder
SEIF is a tool to process, compile and run scripts that look like PHP scripts with the same power, but with an Eiffel syntax.
The goal of SEIF is not to create a new langage, but to make it possible to use as much as possible the Eiffel langage by providing a powerful PHP-like preprocessor for it.
The code in a SEIF script is rewritten by SEIF into an Eiffel class and this class can then be compiled and run by SEIF using an eiffel compiler. Currently it works for quite simple scripts. The goal is to extend and improve it, so that it can be used as easily and for as many things as PHP.
Under a Unix-like operating system, you should be able to execute SEIF scripts if they start a line like this one:
#!/path/to/seif
Because PHP style programming is often easier to write for web site. For example you could write:
<? if somecondition then ?> lots of html stuff here <? else ?> other lots of html stuff here <? end ?>
instead of
if somecondition then io.put_string('lots') io.put_string('of') io.put_string('html') io.put_string('stuff') io.put_string('here') else io.put_string('other') io.put_string('lots') io.put_string('of') io.put_string('html') io.put_string('stuff') io.put_string('here') end
Also you can use both SEIF and Eiffel at the same time, because SEIF should be able to use Eiffel classes as they are.
