Published In
Journal of Object Technology
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Subjects
Computer software -- Development, Software engineering, Object-oriented programs (Computer science) -- Design and construction
Abstract
This article is an apologia for the design of inheritance in the Grace educational programming language: it explains how the design of Grace’s inheritance draws from inheritance mechanisms in predecessor languages, and defends that design as the best of the available alternatives. For simplicity, Grace objects are generated from object constructors, like those of Emerald, Lua, and Javascript; for familiarity, the language also provides classes and inheritance, like Simula, Smalltalk and Java. The design question we address is whether or not object constructors can provide an inheritance semantics similar to classes.
DOI
10.5381/jot.2017.16.2.a2
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/21112
Citation Details
James Noble, Andrew P. Black, Kim B. Bruce, Michael Homer, Timothy Jones. Grace’s Inheritance. Licensed under Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0). In Journal of Object Technology, vol. 16, no. 2, 2017, pages 2:1–35. doi:10.5381/jot.2017.16.2.a2
Description
Originally appeared in the Journal of Object Technology, published by AITO. May be found at http://www.jot.fm/.