Applying Traits to the Smalltalk Collection Classes Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4637338, abstract = {Traits are a programming language technology modeled after mixins but avoiding their problems. This paper reports on a refactoring of the Smalltalk collections classes using traits. We observed that the original collection classes contained much duplication of code; traits let us remove all of it. We also found places where the protocols of the collections lacked uniformity; traits allow us to correct these non-uniformities without code duplication. In addition, traits make possible more general reuse of collection code outside of the existing hierarchy; for example, they make it easy to convert other collection-like things into true collections. Our refactoring reduced the number of methods in the collection classes by approximately 10 per cent. More importantly, understandability and reusability of the code was significantly improved.}, author = {Black, Andrew P. and Sch\"{a}rli, Nathanael}, booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications}, citeulike-article-id = {4637338}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.14.3915}, keywords = {oop, traits}, pages = {47--64}, posted-at = {2009-05-26 21:52:29}, priority = {2}, title = {Applying Traits to the Smalltalk Collection Classes}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.14.3915}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4637338 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4637338 N2 - Traits are a programming language technology modeled after mixins but avoiding their problems. This paper reports on a refactoring of the Smalltalk collections classes using traits. We observed that the original collection classes contained much duplication of code; traits let us remove all of it. We also found places where the protocols of the collections lacked uniformity; traits allow us to correct these non-uniformities without code duplication. In addition, traits make possible more general reuse of collection code outside of the existing hierarchy; for example, they make it easy to convert other collection-like things into true collections. Our refactoring reduced the number of methods in the collection classes by approximately 10 per cent. More importantly, understandability and reusability of the code was significantly improved. EP - 64 TI - Applying Traits to the Smalltalk Collection Classes T2 - In Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications SP - 47 KW - oop KW - traits AU - Black, Andrew AU - Schärli, Nathanael PY - 2003/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.14.3915 ER -