Modeling inheritance as coercion in a symbolic computation system

  • Authors:
  • César Domínguez;Julio Rubio

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. de La Rioja, La Rioja, Spain;Univ. de La Rioja, La Rioja, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2001 international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper the analysis of the data structures used in a symbolic computation system, called Kenzo, is undertaken. We deal with the specification of the inheritance relationship since Kenzo is an object-oriented system, written in CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System. We focus on a particular case, namely the relationship between simplicial sets and chain complexes, showing how the order-sorted algebraic specifications formalisms can be adapted, through the “inheritance as coercion” metaphor, in order to model this Kenzo fragment.