The wide practice of objected oriented programming (OOP) in current software practice is evident. Despite extensive studies on typing programming objects, it is still undeniably a ...
Data Types William R. Cook Hewlett-Packard Laboratories 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94303-0969, USA Abstract: This tutorial collects and elaborates arguments for distinguis...
One of the price tags attached to the blessings that OO brings about is a drop in efficiency due to dynamic method dispatch. Much research effort is being spent on the problem of e...
The three problems of the title — the first two widely discussed in the literature, the third less well known but just as important for further development of object technology ...
Genericity allows the substitution of types in a class. This is usually obtained through parameterized classes, although they are inflexible since any class can be inherited but i...