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In Full Maude, concurrent object-oriented systems can be defined by means of object-oriented modules—introduced by the keyword omod...endom—using a syntax more convenient than that of system modules, because it assumes acquaintance with the basic entities, such as objects, messages and configurations, and supports linguistic distinctions appropriate for the object-oriented case.
As in Core Maude, we may have specifications of object-oriented systems in system modules; for example, we could enter into Full Maude the system modules describing object-based systems discussed in Chapter 11 by enclosing them in parentheses. However, although Maude’s system modules are suffi- cient for specifying object-oriented systems, there are important conceptual advantages provided by Full Maude’s syntax for object-orientedmodules. Such syntax allows the user to think and express his/her thoughts in object-oriented terms whenever such a viewpoint seems best suited for the problem at hand. Those conceptual advantages would be partially lost if only system modules at the Core Maude level were provided.
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Clavel, M. et al. (2007). Object-Oriented Modules. In: All About Maude - A High-Performance Logical Framework. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4350. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71999-1_19
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