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From: jcg@iris.brown.edu (James Grandy)
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Subject: Re: Object Specialization
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Date: 16 Mar 90 15:24:08 GMT
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In article <8401@hubcap.clemson.edu> 
billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 
2847 ) writes:
> 
> From sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen):
> > One of Sciore's goals is the integration of classes and prototypes.
> > Other, perhaps more promising approaches are e.g. in the recent work
> > of Lynn Stein and others at Brown University. We are also developing
> > some ideas at this corner of the world.
> 
>    How about some references?  I'd really like to follow up on this,
>    and hopefully other people would like to pursue it as well...
> 
> 
>    Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu

I have three relevant technical reports:

"Towards a Unified Method of Sharing in Object-Oriented Programming", 
    Lynn Andrea Stein, Brown University CS Dept. Technical Report No.
    CS-89-15, February 1988
    (also published in Proc. Workshop on Inheritance Hierarchies in 
    Programming Languages, Viareggio, Italy February 1989).

"Hybrid: Implementing Classes with Prototypes", Anonio Mercado Jr., 
    Brown University CS Dept. Technical Report No. CS-88-12.

"Clovers: The Dynamic Behavior of Types and Instances," 
    Lynn Andrea Stein and Stanley B. Zdonik, Brown University 
    CS Dept Technical Report No. CS-89-42.

Also, I would recommend
"Towards Explicit Inheritance Schemes", Van Marcke, K., 
    Proc. 21st Annual Hawaii
    International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii 1988.

This latter paper (not by a Brown person) contains some interesting and 
inspirational discussion of the need for more flexible behavior sharing
schemes. The Brown papers address the same issues that Sciore's paper 
does (at least according to the description of it just mentioned).


James Grandy
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