Monographs in Computer Science

By: Martin Abadi, Luca Cardelli

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Hardcover | 23 April 1998

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Procedural languages are generally well understood and their formal foundations cast in the forms of various lambda-calculi. For object- oriented languages however the situation is not as clear-cut. In this book the authors propose and develop a different approach by developing object calculi in which objects are treated as primitives. Using object calculi,the authors are able to explain both the semantics of objects and their typing rules and demonstrate how to develop all of the most important concepts of object-oriented programming languages: self, dynamic dispatch, classes, inheritance, protected and private methods, prototyping, subtyping, covariance and contravariance, and method specialization. Many researchers and graduate students will find this an important development of the underpinnings of object-oriented programming.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Programming & Software Development Object-Oriented Programming or OOP Computer Science Mathematical Theory of Computation Programming & Scripting Languages Software Engineering

Preface
Prologue	p. 1
Object Orientation	p. 7
Class-Based Languages	p. 11
Advanced Class-Based Features	p. 25
Object-Based Languages	p. 35
Modeling Object-Oriented Languages	p. 51
Untyped Calculi	p. 57
First-Order Calculi	p. 79
Subtyping	p. 93
Recursion	p. 113
Untyped Imperative Calculi	p. 129
First-Order Imperative Calculi	p. 141
A First-Order Language	p. 153
Second-Order Calculi	p. 169
A Semantics	p. 185
Definable Covariant Self Types	p. 201
Primitive Covariant Self Types	p. 221
Imperative Calculi with Self Types	p. 241
Interpretations of Object Calculi	p. 257
A Second-Order Language	p. 273
A Higher-Order Calculus	p. 287
A Language with Matching	p. 305
Epilogue	p. 325
Fragments	p. 329
Systems	p. 337
Proofs	p. 347
List of Figures	p. 363
List of Tables	p. 365
List of Notations	p. 371
List of Languages	p. 381
Bibliography	p. 383
Index	p. 391
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