Environments: a flexible binding mechanism to support system evolution (1989)
| Venue: | Proc. 22nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, vol II |
| Citations: | 26 - 9 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Dearle89environments:a,
author = {Alan Dearle},
title = {Environments: a flexible binding mechanism to support system evolution},
booktitle = {Proc. 22nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, vol II},
year = {1989},
pages = {46--55}
}
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Abstract
A language construct called environment is introduced. Environments are collections of bindings and have first class data rights. As such, they provide the programmer with a type secure mechanism to control bindings in the system. It is shown that environments may be combined to provide a naming graph that subsumes the functions of file systems in traditional operating systems. Such a mechanism provides a conceptually simple framework for manipulating bindings which permits the control of complexity and system evolution from within a unified language framework. 1
