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Inheritance and Synchronization in Concurrent OOP

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ECOOP’ 87 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 1987)

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This paper discusses knowledge sharing (inheritance) mechanisms for Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in the context of concurrent (distributed) languages. We review three different schemes: inheritance, delegation and copy. A fourth model, called recipe-query, is presented and all are compared and criticized. Techniques relying on the shared memory assumption are rejected. We point out the conflict between distributing knowledge among objects and the synchronization of concurrent objects.

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  1. Dept. of Information Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152, Japan

    Jean-Pierre Briot & Akinori Yonezawa

  2. LITP, University Paris VI, 4 place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France

    Jean-Pierre Briot

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique, LIB, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 6, avenue V. le Gorgeu, F-29287, Brest Cédex, France

    Jean BĂ©zivin

  2. 54, avenue des Gressets, F-92700, La Celle Saint-Cloud, France

    Jean-Marie Hullot

  3. Rank Xerox France, DRBI, 12, place de l’Iris, F-92071, La Défense, Cedex 38, France

    Pierre Cointe

  4. The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 545, Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Henry Lieberman

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Briot, JP., Yonezawa, A. (1987). Inheritance and Synchronization in Concurrent OOP. In: Bézivin, J., Hullot, JM., Cointe, P., Lieberman, H. (eds) ECOOP’ 87 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47891-4_4

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