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Procedural languages are generally well understood and their formal foundations cast in the forms of various lambda-calculi. For object- oriented languages however the situation is not as clear-cut. In this book the authors propose and develop a different approach by developing object calculi in which objects are treated as primitives. Using object calculi,the authors are able to explain both the semantics of objects and their typing rules and demonstrate how to develop all of the most important concepts of object-oriented programming languages: self, dynamic dispatch, classes, inheritance, protected and private methods, prototyping, subtyping, covariance and contravariance, and method specialization. Many researchers and graduate students will find this an important development of the underpinnings of object-oriented programming.Product Identifiers
PublisherSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-139780387947754
eBay Product ID (ePID)91495543
Product Key Features
Number of Pages396 Pages
Publication NameA Theory of Objects
LanguageEnglish
SubjectComputer Science
Publication Year1998
TypeTextbook
AuthorMartin Abadi, Luca Cardelli
SeriesMonographs in Computer Science
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Weight1670 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorLuca Cardelli, Martin Abadi