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ECOOP 1995: ECOOP’95 — Object-Oriented Programming, 9th European Conference, Åarhus, Denmark, August 7–11, 1995 pp 127–144Cite as

A Marriage of Class- and Object-Based Inheritance Without Unwanted Children

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Class-based languages have often been criticised for their rigidity. Prototype-based languages on the other hand are usually considered too flexible. We claim that this flexibility is inherently correlated to encapsulation problems. We therefore propose a new scale of ‘encapsulated’ inheritance mechanisms on objects that combine the object model of class-based languages with the inheritance mechanism of prototype-based languages. It is shown that they combine the advantages but shun the disadvantages of both paradigms. A denotational semantics of an exemplar encapsulated inheritance mechanism on objects is given and compared with the standard denotational semantics of class- and object-based inheritance. This comparison confirms our claims.

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  1. Programming Technology Lab (PROG), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Patrick Steyaert & Wolfgang De Meuter

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223, Japan

    Mario Tokoro

  2. Rank Xerox Research Centre, 6 Chemin de Maupertuis, F-38240, Meylan, France

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Steyaert, P., De Meuter, W. (1995). A Marriage of Class- and Object-Based Inheritance Without Unwanted Children. In: Tokoro, M., Pareschi, R. (eds) ECOOP’95 — Object-Oriented Programming, 9th European Conference, Åarhus, Denmark, August 7–11, 1995. ECOOP 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 952. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49538-X_7

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