Computing With Coercions

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Tannen, Val
Gunter, Carl A
Scedrov, Andre
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This paper relates two views of the operational semantics of a language with multiple inheritance. It is shown that the introduction of explicit coercions as an interpretation for the implicit coercion of inheritance does not affect the evaluation of a program in an essential way. The result is proved by semantic means using a denotational model and a computational adequacy result to relate the operational and denotational semantics.

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1989-11-01
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University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-89-62.
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