Predicate Dispatching: A Unified Theory of Dispatch Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:71834, abstract = {Predicate dispatching generalizes previous method dispatch mechanisms by permitting arbitrary predicates to control method applicability and by using logical implication between predicates as the overriding relationship. The method selected to handle a message send can depend not just on the classes of the arguments, as in ordinary object-oriented dispatch, but also on the classes of subcomponents, on an argument's state, and on relationships between objects. This simple mechanism...}, address = {New York, NY}, author = {Ernst, Michael D. and Kaplan, Crag and Chambers, Craig}, booktitle = {ECOOP '98: 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Brussels, Belgium}, citeulike-article-id = {71834}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.18.3748}, keywords = {multimethods, predicate-dispatch}, pages = {186--211}, posted-at = {2005-01-08 23:54:30}, priority = {4}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, title = {Predicate Dispatching: A Unified Theory of Dispatch}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.18.3748}, volume = {1445}, year = {1998} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:71834 L3 - citeulike-article-id:71834 N2 - Predicate dispatching generalizes previous method dispatch mechanisms by permitting arbitrary predicates to control method applicability and by using logical implication between predicates as the overriding relationship. The method selected to handle a message send can depend not just on the classes of the arguments, as in ordinary object-oriented dispatch, but also on the classes of subcomponents, on an argument's state, and on relationships between objects. This simple mechanism... AD - New York, NY EP - 211 TI - Predicate Dispatching: A Unified Theory of Dispatch PB - Springer-Verlag VL - 1445 T2 - ECOOP '98: 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Brussels, Belgium SP - 186 KW - multimethods KW - predicate-dispatch AU - Ernst, Michael AU - Kaplan, Crag AU - Chambers, Craig PY - 1998/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.18.3748 ER -