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Beyond the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Object Aliasing

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Aliasing in Object-Oriented Programming. Types, Analysis and Verification

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Aliasing occurs when two or more references to an object exist within the object graph of a running program. Although aliasing is essential in object-oriented programming as it allows programmers to implement designs involving sharing, it is problematic because its presence makes it difficult to reason about the object at the end of an alias—via an alias, an object’s state can change underfoot.

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Clarke, D., Noble, J., Wrigstad, T. (2013). Beyond the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Object Aliasing. In: Clarke, D., Noble, J., Wrigstad, T. (eds) Aliasing in Object-Oriented Programming. Types, Analysis and Verification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7850. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36946-9_1

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