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The Computer Journal 1989 32(4):297-304; doi:10.1093/comjnl/32.4.297
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Inheritance in Actor Based Concurrent Object-Oriented Languages

D. G. Kafura * and K. H. Lee *

Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA

Inheritance is a valuable mechanism which enhances reusability and maintainability of software. A language design based on the actor model of concurrent computation faces a serious problem arising from the interference between concurrency and inheritance. A similar problem also occurs in other concurrent object-oriented languages. In this paper, we describe problems found in existing concurrent object-oriented languages. We present a solution which is based on a concept called behaviour abstraction.

Received April 1989.

* Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, U.S.A.


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