It is rare to give a semantic definition of a full-scale programming language, despite the many potential benefits. Partly this is because the available metalanguages for expressi...
Peter Sewell, Francesco Zappa Nardelli, Scott Owen...
Existing approaches to object encapsulation and confinement either rely on restrictions to programs or require the use of specialised ownership type systems. Syntactic restriction...
Alex Potanin, James Noble, Dave Clarke, Robert Bid...
Inner classes in object-oriented languages play a role similar to nested function definitions in functional languages, allowing an object to export other objects with direct acces...
We show that it is possible to extend a general-purpose programming language with a convenient high-level data-type for manipulating XML documents while permitting (1) precise stat...
Aske Simon Christensen, Christian Kirkegaard, Ande...