{"title":"A lambda calculus of objects and method specialization","authors":"Kathleen Fisher, F. Honsell, John C. Mitchell","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1993.287603","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"An untyped lambda calculus, extended with object primitives that reflect the capabilities of so-called delegation-based object-oriented languages, is presented. A type inference system allows static detection of errors, such as message not understood, while at the same time allowing the type of an inherited method to be specialized to the type of the inheriting object. Type soundness, in the form of a subject-reduction theorem, is proved, and examples illustrating the expressiveness of the pure calculus are presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":6322,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Eighth Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"60 1","pages":"26-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"240","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[1993] Proceedings Eighth Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1993.287603","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 240
Abstract
An untyped lambda calculus, extended with object primitives that reflect the capabilities of so-called delegation-based object-oriented languages, is presented. A type inference system allows static detection of errors, such as message not understood, while at the same time allowing the type of an inherited method to be specialized to the type of the inheriting object. Type soundness, in the form of a subject-reduction theorem, is proved, and examples illustrating the expressiveness of the pure calculus are presented.<>