The concept of inheritance in modern programming languages
https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2015-27(6)-12
Abstract
The paper gives a brief overview of existing approaches to inheritance in programming languages and suggests alternative approach to it keeping multiple inheritance as the general mechanism for the software reuse. Approach is based on overloading and overriding with conflicts resolution at call sites based on conformance instead of full validity of the system inheritance graph.
About the Authors
A. . Kanatov
Samsung R&D Institute Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
E. . Zouev
Samsung R&D Institute Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Review
For citations:
Kanatov A., Zouev E. The concept of inheritance in modern programming languages. Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of the RAS (Proceedings of ISP RAS). 2015;27(6):169-188. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2015-27(6)-12
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