Reducing the use of nullable types through non-null by default and monotonic non-null

IET Software

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 515-531

  Chalin, P ^a   James, P R ^a   Rioux, F ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTICS;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LABOUR INTENSIVES; LARGE CODE BASES; LIBRARY SPECIFICATIONS; NULL VALUES; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; TOOL SUPPORTING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 57649242629     PISSN: 17518806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen:20080010     Document Type: Article

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