A Term-Rewriting Perspective of Object Oriented Program Specifications
- In this work we propose a set of term-rewriting techniques for modelling object-oriented computation. Based on symbolic variants of explicit substitutions calculi, we show how to deal with imperative statements like assignment and sequence in specifications in a pure declarative style. Under our model, computation with classes and objects becomes simply normal form calculation, exactly as it is the case in term-rewriting based languages (for instance the functional languages). We believe this kind of unification between functions and objects is important because it provides plausible alternatives for using the term-rewriting theory as an engine for supporting the formal and mechanical reasoning about object-oriented specifications.
Author: | Carlos Loría-Sáenz |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-49877 |
Series (Serial Number): | Interner Bericht des Fachbereich Informatik (311) |
Document Type: | Report |
Language of publication: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2017/10/30 |
Year of first Publication: | 2001 |
Publishing Institution: | Technische Universität Kaiserslautern |
Date of the Publication (Server): | 2017/10/30 |
Page Number: | 38 |
Faculties / Organisational entities: | Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Informatik |
DDC-Cassification: | 0 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft / 004 Informatik |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons 4.0 - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitung (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |