Paper Info
Title
The Expression Problem, Gracefully
Abstract
The \"Expression Problem\" was brought to prominence by Wadler in 1998. It is widely regarded as illustrating that the two mainstream approaches to data abstraction---procedural abstraction and type abstraction---are complementary, with the strengths of one being the weaknesses of the other. Despite an extensive literature, the origin of the problem remains ill-understood. I show that the core problem is in fact the use of global constants, and demonstrate that an important aspect of the problem goes away when Java is replaced by a language like Grace, which eliminates them.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2786555.2786556
MASPEGHI@ECOOP
Field
DocType
Citations 
Row and column spaces,Programming language,Abstraction,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Algebraic data type,Mainstream,Extensibility,Java
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew P. Black11566366.84