Classes and mixins
- 1 January 1998
- conference paper
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- p. 171-183
- https://doi.org/10.1145/268946.268961
Abstract
While class-based object-oriented programming languagesprovide a flexible mechanism for re-using and managing relatedpieces of code, they typically lack linguistic facilitiesfor specifying a uniform extension of many classes with oneset of fields and methods. As a result, programmers areunable to express certain abstractions over classes.In this paper we develop a model of class-to-class functionsthat we refer to as mixins. A mixin function mapsa class to an extended class by adding or...Keywords
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