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Annotation of Operations on Composite Types

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In this chapter we describe the additional features in Anna for specifying and annotating operations on arrays, records, and access objects (also sometimes called pointers for brevity). Such annotations require language features that are not available in Ada. Typically, to specify operations on composite objects, it is convenient to have expressions denoting the composite values in which only the important component values appear. The values of other components may be unknown or irrelevant. (Ada aggregates, for example, are complete composite values, and require all component values to be given.) Array states and record states are introduced in Anna for this purpose.

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  1. B. W. Lampson, J. J. Horning, R. L. London, J. G. Mitchell, G. L. Popek. Report on the programming language Euclid. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 12 (2), February 1977.

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Luckham, D. (1990). Annotation of Operations on Composite Types. In: Programming with Specifications. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9685-7_8

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