Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
We now turn our attention to the specification, verification, and construction of data representations. These combine “private” definitions of data-representation variables (and possibly functions) with definitions of “public” functions (or “methods”) that provide a suitably abstract “view” of the data to application programs. Chapter 5 introduces the basic concepts in the context of a simple case study, and Chapter 6 discusses a variety of other examples.
Additional Reading
The following are recommended for further discussion and additional examples: [Hoa72a, Hoa72b, Jon80, Rey81, Jon86, LG86, LG00].
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