The design of a class hierarchy may be imperfect. For example, a class C may contain a member m not accessed in any C-instance, an indication that m could be eliminated, or moved ...
Traits are basically mixins or interfaces but with method bodies. In languages that support traits, classes are composed out of traits. There are two main advantages with traits. ...
Language integration is an important issue in the area of software maintenance and reengineering. We describe a novel solution in this area: automatically applied and composed spl...
The class hierarchy is an important aspect of object-oriented software development. Design and maintenance of such a hierarchy is a difficult task that is often accomplished witho...