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  • DOI 10.1145/960112.28718
  • OpenAlex ID W2132055297
  • Type Article
  • Language EN
  • Published 01 Jun 1986
  • Volume 21 (11)
  • Pages 214–223
  • Source ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Publisher Association for Computing Machinery
  • FWCI 16.50
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Using prototypical objects to implement shared behavior in object-oriented systems

Article 1986 EN

A traditional philosophical controversy between representing general concepts as abstract sets or classes and representing concepts as concrete prototypes is reflected in a controversy between two mechanisms for sharing behavior between objects in object oriented programming languages. Inheritance splits the object world into classes , which encode behavior shared among a group of instances , whic…

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