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Object type constructors

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Object type constructors are a model for container objects in typed object-oriented programming languages. Object type constructors solve the difficulties with combining container objects with type inference and parametric polymorphism, the latter of which are used very successfully in functional languages such as ML and Haskell. The semantics of object type constructors introduces a new object cloning operation for container objects with method update, motivated by concerns independent of type inference.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, Castle Point on the Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07040, USA , , , , , , US

    Dominic Duggan

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Received: 3 May 2000 / 23 October 2001

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Duggan, D. Object type constructors. Acta Informatica 38, 367–408 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002360100076

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