type: name of a class,
composed of letters,
numbers, and underscores, starts with a letter.
By convention, a class
(type) name uses only letters in the upper case.
The name of a class
is a noun that describes the meaning of the class.
The basic types in
Eiffel are INTEGER, REAL, DOUBLE, CHARACTER, BOOLEAN.
value: the value of the variable
A numeric
variable is given an initial value of zero.
The value
of a variable is changed by assignment.