A higher abstraction level using first-class inheritance relations (2007)
| Venue: | In ECOOP 2007: Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming |
| Citations: | 2 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Dooren07ahigher,
author = {Marko Van Dooren and Eric Steegmans},
title = {A higher abstraction level using first-class inheritance relations},
booktitle = {In ECOOP 2007: Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming},
year = {2007},
publisher = {Springer}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. Although classes are a fundamental concept in object-oriented programming, a class itself cannot be built using general purpose classes as building blocks in a practical manner. High-level concepts like associations, bounded values, graph structures, and infrastructure for event mechanisms which form the foundation of a class cannot be reused conveniently as components for classes. As a result, they are implemented over and over again. We raise the abstraction level of the language with a code inheritance relation for reusing general purpose classes as components for other classes. Features like mass renaming, first-class relations, high-level dependencies, component parameters, and indirect inheritance ensure that maximal reuse can be achieved with minimal effort. A case study shows a reduction of the code between 21 % and 36%, while the closest competitor only reduces the size between 3 % and 12%. 1
