Erik Ernst, The expression problem, Scandinavian style. MASPEGHI 2004.
This paper explains how higher-order hierarchies can be used to handle the expression problem. The expression problem is concerned with extending both the set of data structures and the set of operations of a given abstract data type. A typical object-oriented design supports extending the set of data structures, and a typical functional design supports extending the set of operations, but it is hard to support both in a smooth manner. Higher-
order hierarchies is a feature of the highly unified, mixin-based, extension-oriented kind of inheritance which is available in the language gbeta, which is itself a language that was created by generalizing the language Beta.
MASPEGHI, in case you wonder, stands for MechAnisms for SPEcialization, Generalization and inHerItance. On the site you'll also find the presentation related to the paper. And oh, gbeta is here.
I wonder what the Scala guys have to say about all this...
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