The inheritance anomaly: ten years after

The term inheritance anomaly was coined in 1993 by Matsuoka and Yonezawa [15] to refer to the problems arising by the coexistence of inheritance and concurrency in concurrent object oriented languages (COOLs). The quirks arising by such combination have been observed since the early eighties, when the first experimental COOLs were designed [3]. In the nineties COOLs turned from research topic to widely used tools in the everyday programming practice, see e.g. the Java [9] experience. This expository paper extends the survey presented in [15] to account for new and widely used COOLs, most notably Java and C [19]. Specifically, we illustrate some innovative approaches to COOL design relying on the aspect oriented programming paradigm [13] that aim at better, erful abstraction for concurrent OOP, and provide means to fight the inheritance anomaly. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.3.3 [Programming Languages]: Language Constructs and Fea

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SAC
• Authors: Giuseppe Milicia, Vladimiro Sassone
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Nineties Cools, Object Oriented Languages, SAC 2004, Term Inheritance