In prior work [15] we studied a language construct restrict that allows programmers to specify that certain pointers are not aliased to other pointers used within a lexical scope....
Alexander Aiken, Jeffrey S. Foster, John Kodumal, ...
abstractions, such as closures, tuples, and user-defined abstract data types. The type system ensures that well-typed programs cannot violate these abstractions. In addition, the ...
J. Gregory Morrisett, David Walker, Karl Crary, Ne...
Computer language paradigms offer linguistic abstractions and proof theories for expressing program implementations. Similarly, system architectures offer the hardware abstractions...
Diomidis Spinellis, Sophia Drossopoulou, Susan Eis...
There have been several efforts to bring static type inference to object-oriented dynamic languages such as Ruby, Python, and Perl. In our experience, however, such type inference...
Jong-hoon (David) An, Avik Chaudhuri, Jeffrey S. F...
Program slicing is a potentially useful analysis for aiding program understanding. However, slices of even small programs are often too large to be generally useful. Imprecise poi...
Markus Mock, Darren C. Atkinson, Craig Chambers, S...