Value Types in Eiffel

Kent, Stuart, Howse, John (1996) Value Types in Eiffel. In: Proceedings of TOOLS Europe'96 (TOOLS 19). . pp. 145-160. Prentice Hall (KAR id:21403)

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Abstract

Identifies a number of problems with Eiffel's expanded types in modelling value types, and proposes a backward compatible syntactic extension, and a modified semantics. The latter is also shown to be (effectively) backward compatible, in the sense that existing programs would run unaffected if compilers implemented the new semantics. The benefits of the approach are discussed, including an elegant approach to rebuilding data structure libraries.

Item Type:	Conference or workshop item (UNSPECIFIED)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions:	Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User:	Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited:	06 Sep 2009 23:17 UTC
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2021 09:59 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/21403 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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