Work

Object specialization

Year: 1989

Type: article

Abstract: Specialization hierarchies typically are treated as type-level constructs and are used to define various inheritance mechanisms. In this paper we consider specialization at the level of objects. We show that doing so creates a more flexible and powerful notion of inheritance by allowing objects to define their own inheritance path. Object specialization can also be used to model certain forms of versioning, implement data abstraction, and provide a “classless” prototype-based language interface to the user.

Source: ACM Transactions on Information Systems

DOI: 10.1145/65935.65936

Author: Edward Sciore

Institution: Boston University

Language: English

Topic: Logic, programming, and type systems

Subfield: Software

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: Deriving and Maintaining Rules in an Intelligent DBMS (Computer and Information Science)