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Classes play a dual role in mainstream statically-typed object-oriented languages, serving as both object generators and object types. In such languages, inheritance implies subtyping. In contrast, the theoretical language community has viewed this linkage as a mistake and has focused on subtyping relationships determined by the structure of object types, without regard to their underlying implementations. In this paper,we explore why inheritance-based subtyping relations are useful and we present an extension to the MOBY programming language that supports both inheritance-based and structural subtyping relations. In addition, we present a formal accounting of this extension.
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Fisher, K., Reppy, J. (2000). Extending Moby with Inheritance-Based Subtyping. In: Bertino, E. (eds) ECOOP 2000 — Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1850. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45102-1_5
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