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CommonLoops: merging Lisp and object-oriented programming

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OOPSLA '86: Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications

June 1986

Pages 17 - 29

https://doi.org/10.1145/28697.28700

Published: 01 June 1986 Publication History

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CommonLoops blends object-oriented programming smoothly and tightly with the procedure-oriented design of Lisp. Functions and methods are combined in a more general abstraction. Message passing is invoked via normal Lisp function call. Methods are viewed as partial descriptions of procedures. Lisp data types are integrated with object classes. With these integrations, it is easy to incrementally move a program between the procedure and object-oriented styles.

One of the most important properties of CommonLoops is its extensive use of meta-objects. We discuss three kinds of meta-objects: objects for classes, objects for methods, and objects for discriminators. We argue that these meta-objects make practical both efficient implementation and experimentation with new ideas for object-oriented programming.

CommonLoops' small kernel is powerful enough to implement the major object-oriented systems in use today.

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OOPSLA '86: Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications

June 1986

508 pages

ISBN:0897912047

DOI:10.1145/28697

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 21, Issue 11
Proceedings of the 1986 conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Nov. 1986
495 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/960112
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