Inheritance in Actor Based Concurrent Object-Oriented Languages

Open Access

1 January 1989

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Computer Journal

Vol. 32 (4) , 297-304
https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/32.4.297

Abstract

Inheritance is a valuable mechanism which enhances reusability and maintainability of software. A language design based on the actor model of concurrent computation faces a serious problem arising from the interference between concurrency and inheritance. A similar problem also occurs in other concurrent object-oriented languages. In this paper, we describe problems found in existing concurrent object-oriented languages. We present a solution which is based on a concept called behaviour abstraction.

Keywords

MODEL
CONCURRENT OBJECT ORIENTED
OBJECT ORIENTED LANGUAGES
ACTOR