Behavioral interface specification languages
Behavioral interface specification languages provide formal code-level annotations, such as
preconditions, postconditions, invariants, and assertions that allow programmers to express …
preconditions, postconditions, invariants, and assertions that allow programmers to express …
Ownership types: A survey
Ownership types were devised nearly 15 years ago to provide a stronger notion of protection
to object-oriented programming languages. Rather than simply protecting the fields of an …
to object-oriented programming languages. Rather than simply protecting the fields of an …
Ownership types for flexible alias protection
Object-oriented programming languages allow inter-object aliasing. Although necessary to
construct linked data structures and networks of interacting objects, aliasing is problematic in …
construct linked data structures and networks of interacting objects, aliasing is problematic in …
Flexible alias protection
Aliasing is endemic in object oriented programming. Because an object can be modified via
any alias, object oriented programs are hard to understand, maintain, and analyse. Flexible …
any alias, object oriented programs are hard to understand, maintain, and analyse. Flexible …
Capabilities for sharing: A generalisation of uniqueness and read-only
Many languages and language extensions include annotations on pointer variables suchas
“read-only,”“unique,” and “borrowed”; many more annotations have been proposed but not …
“read-only,”“unique,” and “borrowed”; many more annotations have been proposed but not …
Alias burying: Unique variables without destructive reads
J Boyland - Software: Practice and Experience, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
An unshared object can be accessed without regard to possible conflicts with other parts of a
system, whether concurrent or single‐threaded. A unique variable (sometimes known as a …
system, whether concurrent or single‐threaded. A unique variable (sometimes known as a …
Reference capabilities for flexible memory management
E Arvidsson, E Castegren, S Clebsch… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Verona is a concurrent object-oriented programming language that organises all the objects
in a program into a forest of isolated regions. Memory is managed locally for each region, so …
in a program into a forest of isolated regions. Memory is managed locally for each region, so …
The Geneva convention on the treatment of object aliasing
J Hogg, D Lea, A Wills, D deChampeaux… - ACM SIGPLAN OOPS …, 1992 - dl.acm.org
Aliasing has been a problem in both formal verification and practical programming for a
number of years. To the formalist, it can be annoyingly difficult to prove the simple Hoare …
number of years. To the formalist, it can be annoyingly difficult to prove the simple Hoare …
Capabilities for uniqueness and borrowing
An important application of unique object references is safe and efficient message passing
in concurrent object-oriented programming. However, to prevent the ill effects of aliasing …
in concurrent object-oriented programming. However, to prevent the ill effects of aliasing …