Lang, Kevin J. and Pearlmutter, Barak A. (1988) Oaklisp: An Object-Oriented Dialect of Scheme. LISP and Symbolic Computation, 1 (1). pp. 39-51. ISSN 0892-4635

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This paper contains a description of Oaklisp, a dialect of Lisp incorporating lexical scoping, multiple inheritance, and first-class types. This description is followed by a revisionist history of the Oaklisp design, in which a crude map of the space of object-oriented Lisps is drawn and some advantages of first-class types are explored. Scoping issues are discussed, with a particular emphasis on instance variables and top-level namespaces. The question of which should come first, the lambda or the object, is addressed, with Oaklisp providing support for the latter approach.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Operating System; Artificial Intelligence; Instance Variable; Multiple Inheritance; Revisionist History;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
Item ID:	10239
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01806175
Depositing User:	Barak Pearlmutter
Date Deposited:	22 Nov 2018 16:08
Journal or Publication Title:	LISP and Symbolic Computation
Publisher:	Kluwer
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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