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A visual programming system is presented in which an object-based framework is imposed on a strongly typed object-oriented language. Active objects in this framework are viewed as a network of cooperating agents subject to mechanisms of behaviour replacement and delegation. Since these mechanisms are effective in a structured organization they tend to increase the active object’s responsibilities and push delegation to a higher level in the design process. The framework is intended to provide, at a coarser level, the flexibility and dynamic characteristic of delegation-based languages without sacrificing the structural design and the efficiency enabled by strongly typed languages.
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da Silva, A.F. (1995). Acting on Inheritance Hierarchies. In: Laffra, C., Blake, E.H., de Mey, V., Pintado, X. (eds) Object-Oriented Programming for Graphics. Focus on Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79192-5_14
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