The Keyword Revolution: Promoting language constructs for data access to first class citizens

Steven te Brinke; Lodewijk Bergmans; Christoph Bockisch

doi:10.1145/2068776.2068780

The Keyword Revolution: Promoting language constructs for data access to first class citizens

Steven te Brinke, Lodewijk Bergmans, Christoph Bockisch

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Abstract

An ongoing trend is to develop new mechanisms for composing software modules that resemble the relations between corresponding problem-domain entities and thus enable a natural decomposition of software for an increasing number of problem domains. However, we have observed that today's programming languages hard-wire a fixed set of composition mechanisms, usually in terms of keywords. To overcome this limitation, we have proposed the Co-op approach enabling developers to implement an open-ended number of composition mechanisms as first-class citizens. Extending our previous prototype which focused on the composition of behavior, this paper reports on our prototype Co-op/II which facilitates implementing composition mechanisms for data access. We show that our approach is sufficient to realize several styles, e.g., of sharing data between sub classes, of controlling visibility, and of behavioral modifiers like synchronization of data access, converting or persisting data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	FREECO '11
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Free Composition
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	4:1-4:5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-0892-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2068776.2068780
Publication status	Published - 26 Jul 2011
Event	1st International Workshop on Free Composition, FREECO 2011 - Lancaster, United Kingdom Duration: 25 Jul 2011 → 29 Jul 2011 Conference number: 1

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Workshop	1st International Workshop on Free Composition, FREECO 2011
Abbreviated title	FREECO
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Lancaster
Period	25/07/11 → 29/07/11

Keywords

METIS-281577
Data abstraction
IR-78614
EWI-20828
CR-D.3
CR-D.1.5
composition operators

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te Brinke, S, Bergmans, L & Bockisch, C 2011, The Keyword Revolution: Promoting language constructs for data access to first class citizens. in FREECO '11: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Free Composition. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, pp. 4:1-4:5, 1st International Workshop on Free Composition, FREECO 2011, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 25/07/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2068776.2068780

The Keyword Revolution: Promoting language constructs for data access to first class citizens. / te Brinke, Steven; Bergmans, Lodewijk; Bockisch, Christoph.
FREECO '11: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Free Composition. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2011. p. 4:1-4:5.

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