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Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing table of contents

Seoul, Korea

SESSION: Object oriented programming languages and systems table of contents

Pages: 1117 - 1121

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:1-59593-480-4

Authors

Eric Allen	Sun Microsystems
J. J. Hallett	Sun Microsystems
Victor Luchangco	Sun Microsystems
Sukyoung Ryu	Sun Microsystems
Guy L. Steele, Jr.	Sun Microsystems

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SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Overloaded functions and methods with multiple dispatch are useful for extending the functionality of existing classes in an object-oriented language. However, such functions introduce the possibility of ambiguous calls that cannot be resolved at run time, and modular static checking that such ambiguity does not exist has proved elusive in the presence of multiple implementation inheritance. We present a core language for defining overloaded functions and methods that supports multiple dispatch and multiple inheritance, together with a set of restrictions on these definitions that can be statically and modularly checked. We have proved that these restrictions guarantee that no undefined nor ambiguous calls occur at run time, while still permitting various kinds of overloading.

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	J. J. Hallett , Victor Luchangco , Sukyoung Ryu , Guy L. Steele, Jr., Integrating coercion with subtyping and multiple dispatch, Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing, March 16-20, 2008, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
	David Lievens , William Harrison, Symmetric encapsulated multi-methods to abstract over application structure, Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing, March 08-12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii