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A Case for Custom, Composable Composition Operators

Year: 2010

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Programming languages typically support a fixed set of composition operators, with fixed semantics. This may impose limits on software designers, in case a desired operator or semantics are not supported by a language, resulting in suboptimal quality characteristics of the designed software system. We demonstrate this using the well-known State design pattern, and propose the use of a composition infrastructure that allows the designer to define custom, composable composition operators. We demonstrate how this approach improves several quality factors of the State design pattern, such as reusability and modularity, while taking a reasonable amount of effort to define the necessary pattern-related code. 1.

Source: University of Twente Research Information

Authors: Wilke Havinga, Christoph Bockisch, Lodewijk Bergmans

Institution: University of Twente

Language: English

Topic: Software Engineering and Design Patterns

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1514328984

FWCI: 16.54

Cites: 23

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10