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Multiple Polymorphic Arguments in Single Dispatch Object Oriented Languages

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Contemporary Computing (IC3 2010)

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Commonly used object-oriented languages like C++, Java and C# are single dispatch languages and do not support multiple polymorphic arguments in message dispatch. In this work, we demonstrate simulation of multimethods in single dispatch languages without any change in the language syntax. For realization of multimethods, we use double dispatching (dispatching on each argument in turn), message dispatching using runtime type information (RTTI) (adding multimethod dispatch routine), and reflection (using metadata). We develop a preprocessor to simulate the RTTI technique. We discuss the issues associated with code-reuse and encapsulating multimethods in single dispatch languages.

A Poster presented at IBM-IRL Collaborative Academia Research Exchange (I-CARE) Workshop, New Delhi, Oct 2009.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, WB, 700 032, India

    Sanchit Bansal

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  1. Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Florida, 32611, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Sanjay Ranka

  2. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl, USA

    Arunava Banerjee

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 110016, New Delhi, INDIA

    Kanad Kishore Biswas

  4. Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University, LA 71272, Ruston, USA

    Sumeet Dua

  5. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Prabhat Mishra

  6. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208016, India

    Rajat Moona

  7. National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Sheung-Hung Poon

  8. Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong

    Cho-Li Wang

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Bansal, S. (2010). Multiple Polymorphic Arguments in Single Dispatch Object Oriented Languages. In: Ranka, S., et al. Contemporary Computing. IC3 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14825-5_23

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