Agora: Reintroducing Safety in Prototype-based Languages (1996)
| Venue: | Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Citations: | 4 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Meuter96agora:reintroducing,
author = {Wolfgang De Meuter and Tom Mens and Patrick Steyaert},
title = {Agora: Reintroducing Safety in Prototype-based Languages},
booktitle = {Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel},
year = {1996}
}
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Abstract
Prototype-based languages are often described as being more flexible and expressive than class-based languages. This greater flexibility makes prototype-based languages well-suited for rapid prototyping and exploratory programming, but comes with a serious loss of safety. Examples of this are the encapsulation problem and the prototype corruption problem most prototype-based languages suffer from. These problems preclude prototypebased languages from being widely used. We propose a prototype-based language that eliminates these problems and thus reintroduces safety in prototype-based languages.
