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| Robert Strandh, John Hamer, Gilbert Baumann, "Using Stealth Mixins to Achieve Modularity," Software Engineering Conference, Australian, pp. 111-116, 2007 Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC'07), 2007. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/ASWEC.2007.52, author = {Robert Strandh and John Hamer and Gilbert Baumann}, title = {Using Stealth Mixins to Achieve Modularity}, journal ={Software Engineering Conference, Australian}, volume = {0}, year = {2007}, issn = {1530-0803}, pages = {111-116}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ASWEC.2007.52}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - CONF JO - Software Engineering Conference, Australian TI - Using Stealth Mixins to Achieve Modularity SN - 1530-0803 SP111 EP116 A1 - Robert Strandh, A1 - John Hamer, A1 - Gilbert Baumann, PY - 2007 KW - null VL - 0 JA - Software Engineering Conference, Australian ER - | |||
Solutions that rely on pre-planning when writing core modules are clumsy and error-prone, since programmers may omit to include all the required "hooks," unused hooks incur a runtime overhead, and any unanticipated extensions may still require significant code changes.
Unfortunately, most languages do not provide adequate mechanisms for supporting the separation of modules. In this paper, we review partial solutions for typical object-oriented languages such as Java, and then present "stealth mixins", a much more satisfactory solution that can be built on top of Common Lisp.
The Common Lisp solution was developed for Gsharp, a sophisticated graphical music score editor, and the technique has been used extensively throughout the program. We use Gsharp as a running example throughout this paper. However, the ideas are applicable to a wide range of applications.