by Paulo Borba and Joseph Goguen
November 1994, 68 pages
FOOPS is a concurrent object-oriented language. We give a structured operational semantics for FOOPS, considering features such as classes of objects with associated methods and attributes, object identity, dynamic object creation and deletion, overloading, polymorphism, inheritance with overriding, dynamic binding, concurrency, nondeterminism, atomic execution, evaluation of expressions as background processes, and object protection.
This paper can be ordered from the Oxford University Computing Lab, Programming Research Group.