Mixin-based inheritance

Mixin-based inheritance (1990)

by Gilad Bracha , William Cook

Venue:	Proc. OOPSLA ’90
Citations:	388 - 12 self

Datum	Value	Source
TITLE	Mixin-based inheritance	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Gilad Bracha	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science; University of Utah	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	Salt Lake City, UT 84112	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	William Cook	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Hewlett-Packard Laboratories	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	1501 Page Mill Road; Palo Alto, CA 94303-0969	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	The diverse inheritance mechanisms provided by Smalltalk, Beta, and CLOS are interpreted as different uses of a single underlying construct. Smalltalk a.nd Beta differ primarily in the direction of class hierarchy growth. These inheritance mechanisms are subsumed in a new inheritance model ba.sed on composition of mixins, or abstract subclasses. This form of inheritance can also encode a CLOS multiple-inherita.nce hierarchy, although changes to the encoded hierarchy that would violate encapsulation are difficult. Practical applica.tion of mixin-based inheritance is illustrated in a sketch of an extension to Modula-3. 1	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1990	INFERENCE
VENUE	Proc. OOPSLA ’90	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	303--311	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	0 found	ParsCit 1.0