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Dynamic overloading with copy semanticsin object-oriented languages:a formal account

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2009

Lorenzo Bettini ,
Sara Capecchi  and
Betti Venneri
Lorenzo Bettini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy; bettini@di.unito.it;capecchi@di.unito.it
Sara Capecchi
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy; bettini@di.unito.it;capecchi@di.unito.it
Betti Venneri
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università di Firenze, Italy; venneri@dsi.unifi.it
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Abstract

Mainstream object-oriented languages often fail to provide complete powerful features altogether, such as, multiple inheritance, dynamic overloading and copy semantics of inheritance. In this paper we present a core object-oriented imperative language that integrates all these features in a formal framework. We define a static type system and a translation of the language into the meta-language λ_object,, in order to account for semantic issues and prove type safety of our proposal.

Keywords

Object-oriented languagesdynamic overloadingmulti-methodscopy semanticstyped lambda calculustype systems.

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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 517 - 565
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© EDP Sciences, 2009

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