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In this chapter, an enhanced object-oriented language model for explicitly supporting context-dependent behavior variations will be proposed, called RONDO 1, which avoids the problems investigated in the previous chapter. The motivation for its design is described, and the concepts that fostered its development will be explained informally. It will be demonstrated that RONDO supports behavior variations in a way that facilitates incremental extensions, hence enables the construction of more reusable software. Finally, RONDO is compared to related approaches suggested in the literature. Parts of the contents of this chapter have been published in [76, 78].
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Mezini, M. (1998). RONDO or a Theme on Variations. In: Variational Object-Oriented Programming Beyond Classes and Inheritance. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 470. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5627-5_3
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