Some designers of class-based object oriented languages choose not to support multiple inheritance. As a result, programmers often resort to ad hoc workarounds. The most common of...
Object-oriented languages come with pre-defined composition mechanisms, such as inheritance, object composition, or delegation, each characterized by a certain set of composition...
: Polymorphic inline caches (PICs) provide a new way to reduce the overhead of polymorphic message sends by extending inline caches to include more than one cached lookup result pe...
This paper develops a mathematical characterisation of object-oriented concepts by defining an observation-oriented semantics for an object-oriented language (OOL) with a rich var...
An approach for metrics-based tool support for the task of understanding object oriented software systems is presented. It stresses the combined presentation of structural informa...