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This chapter considers the relationships between records, tuples and the objects of the object calculus, a representative calculus for object-orientation. The main challenge is how to define functions (or methods) that can act on records which have only some fields in common. The object-oriented approach adds the functionality to the record to produce an object. The pattern calculus approach treats methods as pattern-matching functions, adding special cases only when required to do so.
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Jay, B. (2009). Objects. In: Pattern Calculus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89185-7_6
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