Title :
Comments on "A formal semantics for object model diagrams"
Author :
Botting, Richard J. ; Bourdeau, Robert H. ; Cheng, Betty H C
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California State Univ., San Bernardino, CA, USA
Abstract :
The author indicates some things that need clarifying in the paper cited in the title. The paper does not make it clear that a class of objects is not equivalent to a set of tuples. In a set of tuples two different tuples cannot contain the same data. Two different objects in a given class can contain the same data. In most of the paper this does not matter. However, the simulation function between a subclass and a superclass must be injective, but the (overloaded) simulation function between the sets of tuples usually cannot be injective.
Keywords :
algebraic specification; diagrams; formal specification; object-oriented methods; formal semantics; object model diagrams; simulation function; subclass; superclass; tuples; Error correction; Object oriented programming;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on