Should superclasses be abstract?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 821 LNCS, Issue , 1994, Pages 12-31

  Hürsch, Walter L ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class Management; Object Oriented Programming and Data Modeling; Software Evolution

Indexed keywords

ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

DESIGN RULES; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 85027532070     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0052174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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