PolyTOIL: A Type-Safe Polymorphic Object-Oriented Language

Autor: Robert van Gent, Kim B. Bruce, Angela Schuett
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Object-Oriented Programming ISBN: 9783540601609
ECOOP
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49538-x_3
Popis: PolyTOIL is a new statically-typed polymorphic object-oriented programming language which is provably type-safe. By separating the definitions of subtyping and inheritance, providing a name for the type of self, and carefully defining the type-checking rules, we have obtained a language which is very expressive while supporting modular type-checking of classes. The matching relation on types, which is related to F-bounded quantification, is used both in stating type-checking rules and expressing the bounds on type parameters for polymorphism. The design of PolyTOIL is based on a careful formal definition of type-checking rules and semantics. A proof of type safety is obtained with the aid of a subject reduction theorem.
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