Variational Object-Oriented Programming Beyond Classes and Inheritance: 470 - Rilegato

Mezini, Mira

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ISBN 10: 0792383133 ISBN 13: 9780792383130

Casa editrice: Springer Nature B.V., 1998

Riassunto

Purpose of the Book This book presents an approach to improve the standard object-oriented pro­ gramming model. The proposal is aimed at supporting a larger range of incre­ mental behavior variations and thus promises to be more effective in mastering the complexity of today's software. The ability of dealing with the evolutionary nature of software is one of main merits of object-oriented data abstraction and inheritance. Object-orientation allows to organize software in a structured way by separating the description of different kinds of an abstract data type into different classes and loosely connecting them by the inheritance hierarchy. Due to this separation, the soft­ ware becomes free of conditional logics previously needed for distinguishing between different kinds of abstractions and can thus more easily be incremen­ tally extended to support new kinds of abstractions. In other words, classes and inheritance are means to properly model variations of behavior related to the existence of different kinds of an abstract data type. The support for extensi­ bility and reuse with respect to such kind-specific behavior variations is among the main reasons for the increasing popularity of object-oriented programming in the last two decades. However, this popularity does not prevent us from questioning the real effec­ tiveness of current object-oriented techniques in supporting incremental vari­ ations. In fact, this popularity makes a critical investigation of the variations that can actually be performed incrementally even more important.

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Contenuti

Preface. 1. Incremental Variations in Object-Oriented Programming. 2. Modeling Context-Dependent Behavior Variations. 3. RONDO or a Theme on Variations. 4. A Denotational Semantics of RONDO. 5. Implementation Issues. 6. RONDO at Work: Managing the Evolution of Class Libraries. 7. Conclusions. References. Index.

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Book by Mezini Mira

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer Nature B.V.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792383133
• ISBN 13: 9780792383130
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 280
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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