As object-oriented class libraries evolve, classes are occasionally deprecated in favor of others with roughly the same functionality. In Java’s standard libraries, for example,...
Programmers rely on programming idioms, design patterns, and workaround techniques to make up for missing programming language support. Evolving languages often address frequently ...
Peter Pirkelbauer, Damian Dechev, Bjarne Stroustru...
Abstract. Variant parametric types (VPT) represent the successful result of combining subtype polymorphism with parametric polymorphism to support a more flexible subtyping for Ja...
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. ...
Data-centric synchronization groups fields of objects into atomic sets to indicate they must be updated atomically. Each atomic set has associated units of work, code fragments th...
Mandana Vaziri, Frank Tip, Julian Dolby, Christian...