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Method slots: supporting methods, events, and advices by a single language construct

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Shigeru ChibaAuthors Info & Claims

AOSD '13: Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Aspect-oriented software development

Pages 197 - 208

https://doi.org/10.1145/2451436.2451460

Published: 24 March 2013 Publication History

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To simplify the constructs that programmers have to learn for using paradigms, we extend methods to a new language construct, a method slot, to support both the event-handler paradigm and the aspect paradigm. A method slot is an object's property that can keep more than one function closure and be called like a method. We also propose a Java-based language, DominoJ, which replaces methods in Java with method slots, and explain the behavior of method slots and the operators. Then we evaluate the coverage of expressive ability of method slots by comparing DominoJ with other languages in detail. The feasibility of method slots is shown as well by implementing a prototype compiler and running a preliminary microbenchmark for it.

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Method slots: supporting methods, events, and advices by a single language construct
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features

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AOSD '13: Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Aspect-oriented software development

March 2013

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ISBN:9781450317665

DOI:10.1145/2451436

General Chair:
Hidehiko Masuhara
The University of Tokyo, Japan
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McGill University, Canada
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Elisa Baniassad
Australian National University, Australia
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The Open University of Israel, Israel

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