Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages: Types and Semantics - Hardcover

Bruce, Kim B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026202523X ISBN 13: 9780262025232

Verlag: MIT Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

In recent years, object-oriented programming has emerged as the dominant computerprogramming style, and object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java enjoy wide use in academia andindustry. This text explores the formal underpinnings of object-oriented languages to help thereader understand the fundamental concepts of these languages and the design decisions behindthem.The text begins by analyzing existing object-oriented languages, paying special attention totheir type systems and impediments to expressiveness. It then examines two key features: subtypesand subclasses. After a brief introduction to the lambda calculus, it presents a prototypicalobject-oriented language, SOOL, with a simple type system similar to those of class-basedobject-oriented languages in common use. The text offers proof that the type system is sound byshowing that the semantics preserves typing information. It concludes with a discussion of desirablefeatures, such as parametric polymorphism and a MyType construct, that are not yet included in moststatically typed object-oriented languages.

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Kim B. Bruce is Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of Computer Science at Williams College.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 026202523X
• ISBN 13: 9780262025232
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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