Objects in concurrent logic programming languages

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth Kahn;Eric Dean Tribble;Mark S. Miller;Daniel G. Bobrow

  • Affiliations:
  • Xerox PARC;Xerox PARC;Xerox PARC;Xerox PARC

  • Venue:
  • OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

Concurrent Prolog supports object-oriented programming with a clean semantics and additional programming constructs such as incomplete messages, unification, direct broadcasting, and concurrency synchronization [Shapiro 1983a]. While it provides excellent computational support, we claim it does not provide good notation for expressing the abstractions of object-oriented programming. We describe a preprocessor that remedies this problem. The resulting language, Vulcan, is then used as a behicle for exploring new variants of object-oriented programming which become possible in this framework.