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Method Slots: Supporting Methods, Events, and Advices by a Single Language Construct

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Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development XI

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To simplify the constructs that programmers have to learn for using paradigms, we extend methods to a new language construct, a method slot, to support both the event-handler paradigm and the aspect paradigm. A method slot is an object’s property that can keep more than one function closure and be called like a method. We also propose a Java-based language, DominoJ, which replaces methods in Java with method slots, and explains the behavior of method slots and the operators. Then we evaluate the coverage of expressive ability of method slots by comparing DominoJ with other languages in detail. The feasibility of method slots is shown as well by implementing a prototype compiler and running a preliminary microbenchmark for it.

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    YungYu Zhuang & Shigeru Chiba

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  1. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Shigeru Chiba

  2. University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Éric Tanter

  3. Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Eric Bodden

  4. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  5. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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Zhuang, Y., Chiba, S. (2014). Method Slots: Supporting Methods, Events, and Advices by a Single Language Construct. In: Chiba, S., Tanter, É., Bodden, E., Maoz, S., Kienzle, J. (eds) Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development XI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8400. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55099-7_3

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