Access modifiers like public and private let the programmer control the accessibility of class members. Restricted accessibility supports encapsulation, i.e., the hiding of impleme...
Design patterns are a standard means to create large software systems. However, with standard object-oriented techniques, typical implementations of such patterns are not themselv...
We present a programming language model of the ideas behind Functional Adaptive Programming (AP-F) and our Java implementation, DemeterF. Computation in AP-F is encapsulated in se...
Object-oriented languages define the identity of an object to be an address-based object identifier. The programmer may customize the notion of object identity by overriding the ...
Mandana Vaziri, Frank Tip, Stephen Fink, Julian Do...