Controlling Visibility of Class Extensions - Brossura

Bergel, Alexandre

 
9783639165180: Controlling Visibility of Class Extensions

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Unanticipated changes to complex software systems can introduce anomalies such as duplicated code, suboptimal inheritance relationships and a proliferation of run-time downcasts. Refactoring to eliminate these anomalies may not be an option, at least in certain stages of software evolution. A class extension is a method that is defined in a module, but whose class is defined elsewhere. Class extensions offer a convenient way to incrementally modify existing classes when subclassing is inappropriate. Unfortunately existing approaches suffer from various limitations. Either class extensions have a global impact or they have a purely local impact, with negative results for collaborating clients. Furthermore, conflicting class extensions are either disallowed, or resolved by linearization, with subsequent negative effects. To solve these problems we present classboxes, a module system for object-oriented languages that provides for behavior refinement (i.e., method addition and replacement). Moreover, the changes made by a classbox are only visible to that classbox (or classboxes that import it), a feature we call local rebinding.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Alexandre Bergel is Assistant Professor at the University of Chile. He obtained his PhD in 2005 from the University of Berne, Switzerland, under the supervision of Prof. Nierstrasz and Prof. Ducasse.

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