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This paper presents a survey of programming patterns for Logtalk parametric objects. A parametric object is an object whose identifier is a compound term containing logical variables. These variables play the role of object parameters. Object predicates can be coded to depend on the parameter values. Parametric objects are a common feature of some other object-oriented logic programming languages and Prolog object-oriented extensions. Logtalk extends the usefulness of parametric objects by introducing the concept of object proxies. An object proxy is a compound term that can be interpreted as a possible instantiation of the identifier of a parametric object. Object proxies, when represented as predicate facts, allow application memory footprint to be minimized while still taking full advantage of Logtalk object-oriented features for representing and reasoning with taxonomic knowledge.
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Moura, P. (2011). Programming Patterns for Logtalk Parametric Objects. In: Abreu, S., Seipel, D. (eds) Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management. INAP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6547. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20589-7_4
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