Title :
Environments: a flexible binding mechanism to support system evolution
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., St. Andrews Univ., Fife, UK
Abstract :
A language construct called `environment´ is introduced. Environments are collections of bindings and have first class data rights. As such, they provide the programmer with a type-secure mechanism to control bindings in the system. It is shown that environments can be combined to provide a naming graph that subsumes the functions of file systems in traditional operating systems. Such a mechanism provides a conceptually simple framework for manipulating bindings that permits the control of complexity and system evolution from within a unified language framework
Keywords :
data structures; high level languages; software tools; complexity; environments; file systems; first class data rights; flexible binding mechanism; language construct; naming graph; operating systems; system evolution; type-secure mechanism; unified language framework; Assembly; Computer languages; Control systems; Displays; File systems; Operating systems; Programming profession; Tree data structures; Tree graphs;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1989. Vol.II: Software Track, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kailua-Kona, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1912-0
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1989.48058
