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Extending A+ with Object-Oriented Elements

A Case Study for A+.NET

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021 (ICCSA 2021)

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Abstract

This work presents a language extension to A+ that allows developers to conveniently handle external objects in A+ code. It discusses a set of object-oriented concepts and investigates their implications for the A+ language. For these new language elements, new symbols are added, and each of them represents basic operations (member access, member modification, type casting, and indexing) on objects. For each new operation the underlying mechanism is presented, and simple examples are provided showing their usage. Using these new operations, various .NET classes can be accessed and used from A+ programs without writing any additional code.

The presented language extension in this paper is runtime agnostic and it could enable the interoperation of A+ not only with the .NET framework but with other object-oriented runtimes, too. Additionally this extension adds the basic mechanisms for implementing full object-oriented support for the A+ language in the future.

Csaba Bátori was with the Department of Software Engineering at the time of the language extension work.

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    Project hosted at: https://github.com/elecro/aplusdotnet.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by grant NKFIH-1279-2/2020 of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, Hungary.

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  1. Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged, Dugonics ter 13, Szeged, 6720, Hungary

    Péter Gál, Csaba Bátori & Ákos Kiss

  2. BlackRock, Vaci ut 47, Budapest, 1134, Hungary

    Csaba Bátori

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Gál, P., Bátori, C., Kiss, Á. (2021). Extending A+ with Object-Oriented Elements. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12957. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87013-3_11

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