A Theory of Objects

Monographs in Computer Science

by Martín Abadi, Luca Cardelli

By developing object calculi in which objects are treated as primitives, the authors are able to explain both the semantics of objects and their typing rules, and also demonstrate how to develop all of the most important concepts of object-oriented programming languages: self, dynamic dispatch, classes, inheritance, protected and private methods, prototyping, subtyping, covariance and contravariance, and method specialization. An innovative and important approach to the subject for researchers and graduates.

Genres: Computer Science, Programming, Technical, Computers

409 pages, Hardcover

First published August 9, 1996