Inheritance in smalltalk-80: a denotational definition

  • Authors:
  • S. Kamin

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Dept., 1304 W. Springfield University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

  • Venue:
  • POPL '88 Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

A denotational semantic definition of SMALLTALK-80 is given. Its most notable characteristic is a surprisingly simple treatment of inheritance. An executable version of the semantics, written in STANDARD ML, is also described.