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Article Dans Une Revue Computer Languages, Systems and Structures Année : 2005

Classboxes: Controlling Visibility of Class Extensions

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A class extension is a method that is defined in a module, but whose class is defined elsewhere. Class extensions offer a convenient way to incrementally modify existing classes when subclassing is inappropriate. Unfortunately existing approaches suffer from various limitations. Either class extensions have a global impact, with possibly negative effects for unexpected clients, or they have a purely local impact, with negative results for collaborating clients. Furthermore, conflicting class extensions are either disallowed, or resolved by linearization, with consequent negative effects. To solve these problems we present classboxes, a module system for object-oriented languages that provides for method addition and replacement. Moreover, the changes made by a classbox are only visible to that classbox (or classboxes that import it), a feature we call local rebinding. To validate the model we have implemented it in the Squeak Smalltalk environment, and performed benchmarks.
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inria-00533458 , version 1 (14-01-2011)

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Alexandre Bergel, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Nierstrasz, Roel Wuyts. Classboxes: Controlling Visibility of Class Extensions. Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, 2005. ⟨inria-00533458⟩
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