A statically safe alternative to virtual types

KimB. Bruce, Martin Odersky, Philip Wadler

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Parametric types and virtual types have recently been proposed as extensions to Java to support genericity. In this paper we investigate the strengths and weaknesses of each. We suggest a variant of virtual types which has similar expressiveness, but supports safe static type checking. This results in a language in which both parametric types and virtual types are well-integrated, and which is statically type-safe.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationECOOP'98 - Object-Oriented Programming
Subtitle of host publication12th European Conference Brussels, Belgium, July 20–24, 1998 Proceedings
EditorsEric Jul
PublisherSpringer
Pages523-549
Number of pages27
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-540-69064-1
ISBN (Print)978-3-540-64737-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1998

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer Berlin / Heidelberg
Volume1445
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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