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This paper extends the Lambda Calculus of Objects as proposed in [5] with a new support for incomplete objects. Incomplete objects behave operationally as “standard” objects; their typing, instead, is different, as they may be typed even though they contain references to methods that are yet to be added. As a byproduct, incomplete objects may be typed independently of the order of their methods and, consequently, the operational semantics of the untyped calculus may be soundly defined relying on a permutation rule that treats objects as sets of methods. The new type system is a conservative extension of the system of [5] that retains the mytype specialization property for inherited methods peculiar to [5], as well as the ability to statically detect run-time errors such as message not understood.
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Bono, V., Bugliesi, M., Liquori, L. (1996). A Lambda Calculus of incomplete objects. In: Penczek, W., Szałas, A. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1996. MFCS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61550-4_150
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