NDLI: Variant path types for scalable extensibility

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Author	Igarashi, Atsushi Viroli, Mirko
Abstract	Much recent work in the design of object-oriented programming languages has been focusing on identifying suitable features to support so-called scalable extensibility, where the usual extension mechanism by inheritance works in different scales of software components-that is, classes, groups of classes, groups of groups and so on. Its typing issues has usually been addressed by means of dependent type systems, where nested types are seen as properties of objects. In this work, we seek instead for a different solution, which can bemore easily applied to Java-like languages, in which nested types are considered properties of classe. We introduce the mechanism of variant path types, which provide a flexible means to express intra-group relationship (among classes) that has to be preserved through extension. In particular, improving and extending existing works on groups and exact types, we feature the new notions of exact and inexact qualifications, providing rich abstractions to express various kinds of set of objects, with a flexible subtyping scheme. We formalize a safe type system for variant path types on top of Feather weight Java. Our development results in a complete solution for scalable extensibility, similarly to previous attempts based on dependent type systems.
Starting Page	113
Ending Page	132
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621340 15581160
DOI	10.1145/1297105.1297037
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices (SIGP)
Volume Number	42
Issue Number	10
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1983-05-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Scalable extensibility Subtyping Variant path types Variance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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