DeepFJig
Andrea Corradi, Marco Servetto, Elena Zucca · 2011
We present a new language design which smoothly integrates modular composition and nesting of Java-like classes. That is, inheritance has been replaced by an expressive set of composition operators, inspired by Bracha's Jigsaw framework, and these operators allow to manipulate (e.g., rename or duplicate) a nested class at any level of depth. Typing is nominal as characteristic of Java-like languages, so types are paths of the form outern. c1..... ck which, depending on the class (node) where they occur, denote another node in the nesting tree. However, paths denoting the same class are not equivalent, since they behave differently w.r.t. composition operators.