ELENA is a general-purpose language with late binding. It is multi-paradigm, combining features of functional and object-oriented programming. Rich set of tools are provided to deal with message dispatching : multi-methods, message qualifying, generic message handlers, run-time interfaces
templates with parameters: template can have attribute values in the brackets after the main body
e.g : info("My class"), MyTemplateWithArg(-2). This feature could be used for the field template
templates with parameters: template can have attribute values in the brackets after the main body e.g : info("My class"), MyTemplateWithArg(-2). This feature could be used for the field template